| #2060151 in Books | Louisiana State University Press | 2003-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.14 x.66 x6.08l,.78 | File type: PDF | 232 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An Important Chapter of History|By A reader|Judith Schafer was taken from us too soon. She was (and remains) one of the best New Orleans historians of the current era. This book details a little-known aspect of the American experience: the free black population of New Orleans, which was the largest of any city in antebellum America. In the 1850s, fears of slave insurrection rea|About the Author|Judith Kelleher Schafer, associate director of the Murphy Institute of Political Economy at the Tulane University in New Orleans, is the author of Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana.
For more than 150 years, the tales of hundreds of slaves and free people of color who used the judicial system to negotiate their freedom lay buried deep within the dusty records of the New Orleans district courts. Then Judith Kelleher Schafer spent fourteen years poring over Minute Books and trial transcripts, uncovering fascinating cases. In Becoming Free, Remaining Free, Schafer presents her findings and offers a profound analysis of slavery and manumission in the Cre...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846--1862 | Judith Kelleher Schafer. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
