Slavery''s Metropolis - Unfree Labor in New Orleans During the Age of Revolutions

Informationen zum Autor Rashauna Johnson is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Klappentext A vivid examination of slave life in New Orleans in the early nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung Slavery's Metropolis examines the paradoxes of slave life in New Orleans! a cosmopolitan port city located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. Its vivid stories will appeal to a broad readership! while its theoretical and methodological contributions will appeal to historians and other scholars. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Revolutionary spaces; 2. Market spaces; 3. Neighborhood spaces; 4. Penal spaces; 5. Atlantic spaces; Conclusion. Modern spaces.

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• Authors: Rashauna Johnson, Rashauna (Dartmouth College Johnson, Johnson Rashauna
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2016
• EAN: 9781107133716
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13371-6
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Louisiana, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, C 1700 To C 1800, Slavery and abolition of slavery