Against the odds : free Blacks in the slave societies of the Americas /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Landers, Jane
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; Portland, Or. : Frank Cass, [1996]
Series:	Cass series. Studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures.
Subjects:	Free African Americans > Southern States > History. Free blacks > Caribbean Area > History.

Table of Contents:

Becoming free : manumission and the genesis of a free black community in South Carolina, 1740-90 / Robert Olwell
Colour, class, and identity on the eve of the Haitian revolution : Saint-Domingue's free coloured elite as colons américains / John D. Garrigus
Patronage, property, and persistence : the emergence of a free black elite in Spanish New Orleans / Kimberly S. Hanger
The limits of privilege : where free persons of colour stood in the hierarchy of wealth in antebellum New Orleans / Paul Lachance
Acquisition and loss on a Spanish frontier : the free black homesteaders of Florida, 1784-1821 / Jane G. Landers
Free blacks and coloureds in plantation Suriname : the struggle to rise / Rosemarijn Hoefte
Shades of freedom : Anna Kingsley in Senegal, Florida, and Haiti / Daniel L. Schafer.