Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana

by Alejandro de la Fuente, Ariela J Gross, Ariela J. Gross

Book Overview

How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies - Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana - Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108480640
• ISBN13: 9781108480642
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.4"