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Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) Kindle Edition
Focusing on four especially dramatic court cases, Voices of the Enslaved draws us into Louisiana’s courtrooms, prisons, courtyards, plantations, bayous, and convents to understand how the enslaved viewed and experienced their worlds. As they testified, these individuals charted their movement between West African, indigenous, and colonial cultures; they pronounced their moral and religious values; and they registered their responses to labor, to violence, and, above all, to the intimate romantic and familial bonds they sought to create and protect. Their words — punctuated by the cadences of Creole and rich with metaphor — produced riveting autobiographical narratives as they veered from the questions posed by interrogators.
Carefully assessing what we can discover, what we might guess, and what has been lost forever, Sophie White offers both a richly textured account of slavery in French Louisiana and a powerful meditation on the limits and possibilities of the archive.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherOmohundro Institute and UNC Press
- Publication dateOctober 25, 2019
- File size27519 KB
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“Through meticulously recorded and preserved legal testimony derived from criminal trials in 18th-century New Orleans, White details how slaves perceived their own cultural reality as well as that of the ruling masters. The stories provided offer insight into their morals, societal values, and views on labor, violence, and familial bonds. The author intersperses her narrative with records in French and includes multiple paintings, samples of documented testimony, maps, and architectural sketches that help bring these figures and their plight to life. . . . Graduate students and professionals will find it uniquely enlightening.”―CHOICE
“Voices of the Enslaved is a remarkable achievement of historical interpretation from fragmentary documents, even sources as comparably rich as court transcripts, and is an impressive contribution to scholarship on the African diaspora in the French Atlantic.”―H-Net Reviews
“A compelling and insightful chronicle of the lives of individual enslaved men and women in French colonial Louisiana.”―Journal of Southern History
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- ASIN : B07PWJ6ZMS
- Publisher : Omohundro Institute and UNC Press (October 25, 2019)
- Publication date : October 25, 2019
- Language : English
- File size : 27519 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 303 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #703,961 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #345 in Colonial Period History of the U.S.
- #379 in Black & African American History (Kindle Store)
- #1,270 in U.S. Colonial Period History
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About the author
Sophie White is Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA. She is an historian of early America with an interdisciplinary focus on cultural encounters between Europeans, Africans and Native Americans, and a commitment to Atlantic and global research perspectives.
Her most recent book, _Voices of the Enslaved_, has won 7 book prizes including the Frederick Douglass Prize for most outstanding book on slavery, and the American Historical Association's James A. Rawley Prize in the Atlantic world.
A native of Mauritius (Indian Ocean), she is currently researching a new book on red hair.
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- Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2020This book is great. I am passionate about archives and research, and the author draws out so much of what is wonderful about archives. She puts the voices of an under-represented group of people-the enslaved-front and center to let us all hear their testimony, in their own voice, then interprets it with historic context.
She features complicated stories with painful implications for history and our times, but helps us to see the power and strength in the story, too.
So ultimately, in this book we have both the direct voices from the archive and the framing and synthesis of someone who obviously spent a lot of time at the research--
It's really just a treasure.