Voices of the enslaved : love, labor, and longing in French Louisiana /
White, Sophie,
Voices of the enslaved : love, labor, and longing in French Louisiana / Sophie White. - Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; (c)2019. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), facsimiles (some color)
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"--
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
9781469654058 9781469654065
Enslaved persons--History--Louisiana--18th century.
Slavery--History--Louisiana--18th century.
Electronic Books.
E445 / .V653 2019
Voices of the enslaved : love, labor, and longing in French Louisiana / Sophie White. - Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; (c)2019. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), facsimiles (some color)
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"--
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
9781469654058 9781469654065
Enslaved persons--History--Louisiana--18th century.
Slavery--History--Louisiana--18th century.
Electronic Books.
E445 / .V653 2019