The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

by Emily Clark

Book Overview

Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a "quadroon," she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich archives of New Orleans tell a different story. Free women of color with ancestral roots in New Orleans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469622068
• ISBN13: 9781469622064
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"