Becoming free, remaining free : manumission and enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862 /

Becoming free, remaining free : manumission and enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Schafer, Judith Kelleher, 1942-
Imprint:	Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University, c2003.
Description:	xxiv, 204 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Slaves -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century. Free African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century. African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century. Slavery -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century. Slaves -- Emancipation -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century. African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. Free African Americans. Race relations. Slavery. Slaves. Slaves -- Emancipation. New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations. Louisiana -- New Orleans. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4891321

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ISBN:	0807128627 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807128805 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-184) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: "Life, Busy, Puffing, Smoking, Precious Life"
Prologue: Laws Governing Manumission, 1807-1857
1. Suing for Freedom: Slaves in Transit
2. "Voleur de Negres": The Strange Career of Jean Charles David
3. Contracting for Freedom and Self-Purchase
4. Freeing Slaves by Will
5. Manumission in New Orleans, 1855-1857
6. The Struggle to Stay Free
7. Kidnapping Free People of Color
8. Being in the State of Contravention of the Law
9. Desperation and Self-Enslavement
Epilogue: And the War Came.