Description: Becoming Free, Remaining Free : Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1, Paperback by Schafer, Judith Kelleher, ISBN 0807128805, ISBN-13 9780807128800, condition is Very Good to Near Mint. No markings throughout the pages, right binding, clean. Louisiana state law was unique in allowing slaves to contract for their freedom and to initiate a lawsuit for liberty. Judith Kelleher Schafer describes the ingenious and remarkably sophisticated ways New Orleans slaves used the legal system to gain their independence and find a voice in a society that ordinarily gave them none. Showing that remaining free was often as challenging as becoming free, Schafer also recounts numerous cases in which free people of color were forced to use the courts to prove their status. She further documents seventeen free blacks who, when faced with deportation, amazingly sued to enslave themselves. Schafer’s impressive detective work achieves a rare feat in the historical profession—the unveiling of an entirely new facet of the slave experience in the American South.
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Subject Area: Legal History, Regional History
Book Title: Becoming Free, Remaining Free : Manumission and Enslavement in Ne
Educational Level: Adult & Further Education, High School
Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Features: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: African Studies, American Studies, History, Politics
Item Length: 9in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Judith Kelleher Schafer
Publication Name: Becoming Free, Remaining Free : Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846--1862
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Louisiana STATE University Press
Publication Year: 2003
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 230 Pages
