Becoming Free, Becoming Black. Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana, New ed, Paperback/***

Becoming Free, Becoming Black offers the first comparative study of law, race, and freedom in the Americas from the sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. Slaveholders linked blackness and slavery in the law, but by the mid-nineteenth century the social meaning of blackness varied over time and under different legal regimes. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Author(s): Ariela J. (University of Southern California) Gross Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises; 2 Tables, black and white; 6 Maps; 6 Halftones, black and white; 11 Line drawings, black and white Number of pages: 295 Collection: Studies in Legal History Publication date: 2021 Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 21 Cover type: Paperback / softback