Public Slavery, Racial Formation, and the Struggle over Honor in French New Orleans, 1718-1769

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1 juillet 2016

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(Author) honor Louisiana 18th century (Thesaurus) race State slavery


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CÉCILE VIDAL, « Public Slavery, Racial Formation, and the Struggle over Honor in French New Orleans, 1718-1769 », Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, ID : 10670/1.a48zfr


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In New Orleans throughout the French Regime (1718-1769), ruling authorities did not only shape the slave system through the way they exercised their political and administrative prerogatives and functions, but were directly involved as slaveholders. Public slavery facilitated the emergence of New Orleans and Lower Louisiana society as a slave society, and was not necessarily incompatible with racial prejudice and discrimination. On the contrary, it fueled the construction of race. At the same time, it made visible the fact that honor did not only define the boundary between the free and the non-free and the identity of the white population.

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