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Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana

by Sophie White

In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men–like the testimony of free colonists–was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they answered with stories about themselves, stories that rebutted the premi

Publisher

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

352

ISBN

9781469666266