Voices of the enslaved : love, labor, and longing in French Louisiana / Sophie White.
Material type: TextLanguage: English, French Original language: French Publication details: Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; (c)2019.; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), facsimiles (some color)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781469654058
- 9781469654065
- E445 .V653 2019
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- Frederick Douglass Book Prize, 2020
- James A. Rawley Prize, 2020
- Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize, 2020
- Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, 2020
- Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Prize, 2020
- Summerlee Book Prize, 2020
- Merle Curti Social History Award, 2020
- Kenshur Prize, 2020
- Sterling Stuckey Book Prize, 2020
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Note on translation and transcription -- "Said, without being asked" : an introduction -- "Only in default of whites" : slave testimony and court procedure -- "It's only from God that we ask forgiveness" : Louison -- "Not so denatured as to kill her child" : Marie-Jeanne and Lisette -- "Our place" : Francisque, Démocrite, and Hector -- "Asleep in their bed at the door of their cabin" : Kenet and Jean-Baptiste -- Epilogue : Toward an intellectual critique of slavery?
"In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they answered with stories about themselves, stories that rebutted the premise on which slavery was founded. Focusing on four especially dramatic court cases, Voices of the Enslaved draws us into Louisiana's courtrooms, prisons, courtyards, plantations, bayous, and convents to demonstrate how enslaved people viewed and experienced their worlds. Sophie White offers both a richly textured account of slavery in French Louisiana and a powerful meditation on the limits and possibilities of the archive"--
COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:
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Frederick Douglass Book Prize, 2020
James A. Rawley Prize, 2020
Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize, 2020
Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, 2020
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Prize, 2020
Summerlee Book Prize, 2020
Merle Curti Social History Award, 2020
Kenshur Prize, 2020
Sterling Stuckey Book Prize, 2020
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