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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Free People of Color"”.
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Households and Neighborhoods Among Free People of Color in New Orleans: A View from the Census, 1850-1860
Historians have debated to what extent the free people of color in New Orleans were members of a wealthy privileged elite or part of a middle or working class in the South's largest antebellum city. This study steps outside the debate to suggest that analysis of the censuses of 1850 and 1860 shows …
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Investing in Citizenship: Free Men of Color of Color and the case against Citizens Bank ~ Antebellum Louisiana
<p>Despite the popularity of free people of color in New Orleans as a research topic, the history of free people of color remains misunderstood. The prevailing view of free people of color is that of people who: engaged in pla<em>ç</em>age, attended quadroon balls, were desperately dependent upon …
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Suffrage for White Men Only: The Disfranchisement of Free Men of Color in Antebellum North Carolina
This thesis explores the disfranchisement of free men of color in 1835 North Carolina through the lens of antebellum citizenship and within the context of the racial turmoil of the 1830s. Citizenship and the evolution of southern racial ideology converged in the 1835 North Carolina Constitutional …
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Respectable from their intelligence: the education of Louisiana's gens de couleur libres, 1800 to 1860
This study provides a historical analysis of the socioeconomic and cultural conditions that influenced the unprecedented educational attainment of Louisiana’s gens de couleur libres (free people of color) from colonization to the dawn of the American Civil War. Many in this community came to …
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Mixed-race fantasies: abolitionist propaganda as spectacles of race in the nineteenth century
… all our daguerrean artists, will take pictures of these little girls, and place them in their specimens by the street side. We want our citizens to see what people are made slaves of at the South,” declared an anonymous author in a letter written in 1855 to the abolitionist journal The …
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"This is OUR AMERICA, TOO": Marcus B. Christian & the History of Black Louisiana
… than the biracial system that governed much of the United States) left the region and the history of its black inhabitants, outside of familiar narratives of United States black history. Marcus B. Christian, the self-trained intellectual, sought to research, and make public, the history of …
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An African American discourse community in Black & White: the New Orleans Tribune
… The New Orleans Tribune, an archival study of the first black-owned daily newspaper in the United States, I argue that the newspaper rhetorically constructed a literate African American discourse community worthy of citizenship and equal political rights within the public sphere of …
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Transnational networks and nation-building: the protest of Barágua and the transition from plantation societies to the modern nation-state in Cuba and the Americas
The formation of transnational ties, and the forging of transnational relationships between non-governmental organizations and politically marginalized groups, is often interpreted as a late twentieth century cultural phenomenon. This work challenges that supposition by examining the cultural …