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Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic (The Early Modern Americas)
Jennifer L. Palmer
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Description for Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic (The Early Modern Americas)
Hardcover. Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds shows how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period. Series: The Early Modern Americas. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1QSA; HBTQ; HBTS; JFFN; LAZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period. As race-based slavery became entrenched in French laws, all household members in the French Atlantic world -regardless of their status, gender, or race-negotiated increasingly stratified legal understandings of race and gender. Through her focus on household relationships, Jennifer L. Palmer reveals how intimacy not only led to the seemingly immutable hierarchies of the plantation system but also ... Read more
Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period. As race-based slavery became entrenched in French laws, all household members in the French Atlantic world -regardless of their status, gender, or race-negotiated increasingly stratified legal understandings of race and gender. Through her focus on household relationships, Jennifer L. Palmer reveals how intimacy not only led to the seemingly immutable hierarchies of the plantation system but also ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
Series
The Early Modern Americas
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812248401
SKU
V9780812248401
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About Jennifer L. Palmer
Jennifer L. Palmer teaches history at the University of Georgia.
Reviews for Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic (The Early Modern Americas)
Intimate Bonds is a deeply-researched book that offers an important intervention in the fields of early modern French and French Atlantic history. Analyzing a broader range of actors than previous historians, Jennifer L. Palmer sheds important new light on the contested, constructed, and shifting meanings of 'race' in the French Atlantic world. -Brett Rushforth, University of Oregon A striking ... Read more