Description
The chapters in part one, Negotiating Slavery and Freedom, highlight the centrality of the institution of slavery in the urban societies of Saint-Louis and New Orleans from their foundation to the second half of the nineteenth century. Part two, Elusive Citizenship, explores how the notions of nationality, citizenship, and subjecthood- as well as the rights or lack of rights associated with them- were mobilized, manipulated, or negotiated at key moments in the history of each city. Part three, Mythic Persistence, examines the construction, reproduction, and transformation of myths and popular imagination in the colonial and postcolonial cities. It is here, in the imagined past, that New Orleans and Saint-Louis most clearly mirror one another. The essays in this section offer two examples of how historical realities are simplified, distorted, or obliterated to minimize the violence of the cities' common slave and colonial past in order to promote a romanticized present. With editors from three continents and contributors from around the world, this work is truly an international collaboration.
About the Author
Emily Clark is Clement Chambers Benenson Professor in Colonial American History at Tulane University and the author of five books, including Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727- 1834 and The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World.
Ibrahima Thioub is professor of history at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, and associate fellow at the Nantes Institute for Advanced Study in Nantes, France. He founded and leads the Centre Africain de Recherches sur les Traites et les Esclavages (CARTE) at Dakar.
CeI cile Vidal is directrice d'eI tudes at the EI cole des Hautes A0/00tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She coauthored, with Gilles Havard, Histoire de l'AmeI rique francIaise and has edited numerous collected works, including Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World. Her latest monograph is Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society.
Book Information
ISBN 9780807171110
Author Emily Clark
Format Hardback
Page Count 264
Imprint Louisiana State University Press
Publisher Louisiana State University Press
Weight(grams) 550g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm