Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana by Sophie White

Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo

Sophie White

352 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about att...

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