TY  - BOOK
AU  - White,Sophie
TI  - Voices of the enslaved: love, labor, and longing in French Louisiana 
SN  - 9781469654058
AV  - E445 .V653 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Williamsburg, Virginia
PB  - Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
KW  - Enslaved persons
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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?; 2; b
N2  - "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"--
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