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9%OFFKimberly S. Hanger - Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769–1803 - 9780822318989 - V9780822318989
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Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769–1803

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Description for Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769–1803 paperback. Explores the origin of antebellum New Orleans' large, influential, and propertied free black - or libre - population, one that was unique in the South. This book is of interest to scholars in the fields of Latin American history, African American studies, and southern history. Num Pages: 264 pages, 4 photographs, 20 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
During Louisiana’s Spanish colonial period, economic, political, and military conditions combined with local cultural and legal traditions to favor the growth and development of a substantial group of free blacks. In Bounded Lives, Bounded Places, Kimberly S. Hanger explores the origin of antebellum New Orleans’ large, influential, and propertied free black—or libre—population, one that was unique in the South. Hanger examines the issues libres confronted as they individually and collectively contested their ambiguous status in a complexly stratified society.
Drawing on rare archives in Louisiana and Spain, Hanger reconstructs the world of late-eighteenth-century New Orleans from the perspective of its ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822318989
SKU
V9780822318989
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About Kimberly S. Hanger
At the time of her death, Kimberly S. Hanger was Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tulsa.

Reviews for Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769–1803
“Bounded Lives, Bounded Places is an original contribution to the study of colonial Louisiana—an important, but neglected field of study. Hanger focuses upon both ethnic and women’s history, and makes a contribution to comparative history.”—Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Professor of History, Emerita, Rutgers University “Kimberly Hanger traces the origins of antebellum Louisiana’s large and influential free black society to the late ... Read more

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