Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865

by Nik Ribianszky

In Generations of Freedom Nik Ribianszky employs the lenses of gender and violence to examine family, community, and the tenacious struggles by which free blacks claimed and maintained their freedom under shifting international governance from Spanish colonial rule (1779-95), through American acquisition (1795) and eventual statehood (established in 1817), and finally to slavery's legal demise in 1865.

Freedom was not necessarily...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820364843
• ISBN13: 9780820364841
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"