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Voices of the enslaved : love, labor, and longing in French Louisiana / Sophie White.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: 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
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469654058
  • 9781469654065
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E445 .V653 2019
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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?
Awards:
  • 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
Subject: "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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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"--

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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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