Pinnen, Christian,

Complexion of empire in Natchez : race and slavery in the Mississippi borderlands / Christian Pinnen. - 1 online resource (xiii, 310 pages) : illustrations. - Early American places .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Purity of Blood and Dark Complexions: French Empire Building in the Lower Mississippi Valley -- 2 English Bloodlines and the Expansion of Empire: Natchez 1763 to 1779 -- 3 Masters of Complexion? Loyalists, Patriots, and Opportunists in the Colonial Backcountry -- 4 Spanish Complexions in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Making Race in Natchez -- 5 Gendered Complexions: Freedom and Interracial Relationships in Spanish Natchez 6 New Crop, New Rules of Complexion: From Prince Tobacco to King Cotton -- 7 Mississippi Fever: Fortifying the ""Malignant Empire"" of Complexion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y



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