The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

by Emily Clark

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Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a "quadroon," she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich archives of New Orleans tell a different story. Free women of color with ancestral roots in New Orleans...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1469622068

ISBN13:9781469622064

Release Date:February 2015

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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