rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Becoming free, becoming Black
    sub title: race, freedom, and law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
  name:
    name part: Fuente, Alejandro de la
    name part: 1963-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Gross, Ariela Julie
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies, Cuba, Virginia and Louisiana, Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that the law of freedom, not slavery, established the meaning of blackness in law. Contests over freedom determined whether and how it was possible to move from slave to free status, and whether claims to citizenship would be tied to racial identity. Laws regulating the lives and institutions of free people of color created the boundaries between black and white, the rights reserved to white people, and the degradations imposed only on black people
  table of contents: "A Negro and by consequence an alien" : local regulations and the making of race, 1500s-1700s -- The "inconvenience" of Black freedom : manumission, 1500s-1700s -- "The natural right of all mankind" : claiming freedom in the Age of Revolution, 1760-1830 -- "Rules ... for their expulsion" : foreclosing freedom, 1830-1860 -- "Not of the same blood" : policing racial boundaries, 1830-1860 -- Conclusion: "Home-born citizens" : the significance of free people of color.
  note: Alejandro de la Fuente, Ariela J. Gross.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n------
    geographic code: s------
    geographic code: nwcu---
    geographic code: n-us-la
    geographic code: n-us-va
  subject:
    topic: Blacks
    geographic: America
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Slavery
    geographic: America
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Blacks
    topic: Legal status, laws, etc
    geographic: America
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Legal status, laws, etc
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Slavery
    topic: Law and legislation
    geographic: Cuba
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Slavery
    topic: Law and legislation
    geographic: Louisiana
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Slavery
    topic: Law and legislation
    geographic: Virginia
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: America
    topic: Race relations
    topic: History
  classification: E29.N3 F84 2020
  classification: 305.800973
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in legal history
  identifier: 9781108480642
  identifier: 1108480640
  identifier: 2019018404
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190422
    record change date: 20200622150016.0
    record identifier: in00004087000