The seven contributions contained in this collection address various forms of manumission throughout the American South as well as the Caribbean. Topics include color, class, and identity on the eve of the Haitian revolution; where free persons of color stood in the hierarchy of wealth in antebellum New Orleans; and the free black homesteaders of Florida, 1784-1821. Paper edition (unseen), $17.50. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Introduction vii Becoming Free: Manumission and the Genesis of a Free Black Community in South Carolina, 1740-90 1(19) Robert Olwell Colour, Class, and Identity on the Eve of the Haitian Revolution: Saint-Domingues Free Coloured Elite as colons americains 20(24) John D. Garrigus Patronage, Property and Persistence: The Emergence of a Free Black Elite in Spanish New Orleans 44(21) Kimberly S. Hanger The Limits of Privilege: Where Free Persons of Colour Stood in the Hierarchy of Wealth in Antebellum New Orleans 65(20) Paul Lachance Acquisition and Loss on a Spanish Frontier: The Free Black Homesteaders of Florida, 1784-1821 85(17) Jane G. Landers Free Blacks and Coloureds in Plantation Suriname: The Struggle to Rise 102(28) Rosemarijn Hoefte Shades of Freedom: Anna Kingsley in Senegal, Florida and Haiti 130(25) Daniel L. Schafer Notes on Contributors 155(2) Index 157
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