Race, sex, and social order in early New Orleans

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spear, Jennifer M., 1967-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009.
Series:Early America.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Indian women, French women, and the regulation of sex
  • Legislating slavery in French New Orleans
  • Affranchis and sang-mêlé
  • Slavery and freedom in Spanish New Orleans
  • Limpieza de sangre and family formation
  • Negotiating racial identities in the 1790s
  • Codification of a tripartite racial system in Anglo-Louisiana.