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The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

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Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a "quadroon," she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich archives of New Orleans tell a different story. In The Strange History of the American Quadroon, Clark investigates how the narrative of the erotic colored mistress became an elaborate literary and commercial trope, persisting as a symbol that long outlived the political and cultural purposes for which it had been created. Untangling myth and memory, she presents a dramatically new and nuanced understanding of the myths and realities of New Orleans's free women of color.
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Emily Clark is Clement Chambers Benenson Professor of American Colonial History and associate professor of history at Tulane University. She is author of Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834.
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ISBN:
9781469607528
Author:
Clark, Emily
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Subject:
Women's Studies
Subject:
New orleans
Subject:
Philadelphia
Subject:
Hispaniola
Subject:
Haiti
Subject:
Sante Domingue
Subject:
Toussant Louverture
Subject:
Sally Hemings
Subject:
Thomas Jefferson
Subject:
Atlantic world
Subject:
racial anxieties
Subject:
Harriet Martineau
Subject:
domestic colonialism
Subject:
West Indies
Subject:
Placage
Subject:
menagere
Subject:
Refugees
Subject:
Slaves
Subject:
Free Women of Color
Subject:
seductress
Subject:
erotic
Subject:
exotic
Subject:
Marriage
Subject:
Weddings
Subject:
concubine
Subject:
Concubinage.
Subject:
Family formation
Subject:
Wills
Subject:
Inheritance
Subject:
bequests
Subject:
quadroon balls
Subject:
masked balls
Subject:
illicit relations
Subject:
mulatto
Subject:
licentiousness
Subject:
Black Code
Subject:
Civil Code
Subject:
Haitian Revolution
Subject:
slave insurrection
Subject:
Fredrick Law Olmsted
Subject:
Battle of New Orleans.
Subject:
Cohabitation
Subject:
black militia
Subject:
port cities
Subject:
Abolition
Subject:
racial equality
Subject:
fancy girls
Subject:
fancy trade
Subject:
Lydia Maria Child
Subject:
Gender Studies-Womens Studies
Copyright:
2013
Series Volume:
Free Women of Color
Publication Date:
20130422
Binding:
Hardback
Language:
English
Pages:
304
Dimensions:
9.25 x 6.125 in
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History and Social Science » World History » General

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