An American color : race and identity in New Orleans and the Atlantic world /

For decades, scholars have used the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every 'rule' of accepted U.S. historiography. American only by adoption, New Orleans, in the vast majority of studies, serves as a frontier town of the circum-Caribbean, a vestig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wegmann, Andrew N. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2022].
Series:Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Genèse Française: the French
  • The vitriolic blood of a Negro: the Spanish
  • A sensible equivalent to the original blood: the Americans
  • A fire of color and class: the South
  • "A call back to the original": the Atlantic.