Becoming free, remaining free : manumission and enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862 / Judith Kelleher Schafer.
2003
F379.N59 N445 2003 (Mapit)
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Becoming free, remaining free : manumission and enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862 / Judith Kelleher Schafer.
ISBN
0807128805 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807128627 (alk. paper)
0807128627 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University, c2003.
Language
English
Description
xxiv, 204 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
F379.N59 N445 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification
976.3/35
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-184) and index.
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Laws governing manumission, 1807-1857
Suing for freedom: slaves in transit
"Voleur de negres": the strange career of Jean Charles David
Contracting for freedom and self-purchase
Freeing slaves by will
Manumission in New Orleans, 1855-1857
The struggle to stay free
Kidnapping free people of color
Being in the state in contravention of the law
Desperation and self-enslavement.
Suing for freedom: slaves in transit
"Voleur de negres": the strange career of Jean Charles David
Contracting for freedom and self-purchase
Freeing slaves by will
Manumission in New Orleans, 1855-1857
The struggle to stay free
Kidnapping free people of color
Being in the state in contravention of the law
Desperation and self-enslavement.