Becoming free, remaining free : manumission and enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862 / Judith Kelleher Schafer.
2003
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Title
Becoming free, remaining free : manumission and enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862 / Judith Kelleher Schafer.
Published
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University, [2003]
Copyright
©2003
Call Number
F379.N59 N445 2003
ISBN
0807128627 (alk. paper)
0807128805 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807128805 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xxiv, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)51297235
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-184) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Life, Busy, Puffing, Smoking, Precious Life"
Prologue: Laws Governing Manumission, 1807-1857
1
1
Suing for Freedom: Slaves in Transit
15
2
"Voleur de Negres": The Strange Career of Jean Charles David
34
3
Contracting for Freedom and Self-Purchase
45
4
Freeing Slaves by Will
59
5
Manumission in New Orleans, 1855-1857
71
6
The Struggle to Stay Free
97
7
Kidnapping Free People of Color
115
8
Being in the State of Contravention of the Law
129
9
Desperation and Self-Enslavement
145
Epilogue: And the War Came
163
Bibliography
167
Index
185