Race, sex, and social order in early New Orleans [electronic resource] / Jennifer M. Spear.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Early AmericaPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009.Description: xi, 335 p. : ill., mapSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.7089009763/35 22
LOC classification:
  • HN80.N45 S64 2009eb
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Contents:
Introduction -- Indian women, French women, and the regulation of sex -- Legislating slavery in French New Orleans -- Affranchis and sang-m�el�e -- 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-323) and index.

Introduction -- Indian women, French women, and the regulation of sex -- Legislating slavery in French New Orleans -- Affranchis and sang-m�el�e -- 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.

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