Becoming Free, Becoming Black. Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana, New ed, Paperback

Becoming Free, Becoming Black offers the first comparative study of law, race, and freedom in the Americas from the sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. Slaveholders linked blackness and slavery in the law, but by the mid-nineteenth century the social meaning of blackness varied over time and under different legal regimes.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Author(s): Ariela J. (University of Southern California) Gross
• Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises; 2 Tables, black and white; 6 Maps; 6 Halftones, black and white; 11 Line drawings, black and white
• Number of pages: 295
• Collection: Studies in Legal History
• Publication date: 2021
• Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 21
• Cover type: Paperback / softback