Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society by Cécile Vidal

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 903-904
Author(s):  
Gregg Lightfoot
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Slave Society

Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Mark M. Smith ◽  
Thomas N. Ingersoll ◽  
Midori Takagi
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Deep South ◽  
Slave Society

scholarly journals Public Slavery, Racial Formation, and the Struggle over Honor in French New Orleans, 1718-1769

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Cécile Vidal
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Slave System ◽  
White Population ◽  
Slave Society ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
The Way ◽  
French Regime

In New Orleans throughout the French Regime (1718-1769), ruling authorities did not only shape the slave system through the way they exercised their political and administrative prerogatives and functions, but were directly involved as slaveholders. Public slavery facilitated the emergence of New Orleans and Lower Louisiana society as a slave society, and was not necessarily incompatible with racial prejudice and discrimination. On the contrary, it fueled the construction of race. At the same time, it made visible the fact that honor did not only define the boundary between the free and the non-free and the identity of the white population.

Free Blacks in a Slave Society: New Orleans, 1718-1812

1991 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas N. Ingersoll
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Free Blacks ◽  
Slave Society

From Louisiana to Saint-Domingue and from Saint-Domingue to Louisiana

2019 ◽  
pp. 498-514
Author(s):  
Cécile Vidal
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Transnational History ◽  
Atlantic History ◽  
National History ◽  
Atlantic Studies ◽  
Saint Domingue ◽  
Slave Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean

The conclusion explains how this book, by reconsidering the interplay of slavery and race in French New Orleans under the influence of Saint-Domingue, has proposed an alternative way of understanding how an urban slave society operated and what it meant for a slave society to become racialized. It has also tried to better fulfill the promises of Atlantic history. Like other kinds of transnational history, Atlantic studies were conceived of as a way to move away from the primacy of the present-day nation state as a unit of analysis and from the tendency toward exceptionalism inherent to national history, but this historiographical field has not yet succeeded in fully escaping from a North-American-centric perspective. At stake is the recovery of the place the Caribbean occupied within the early Atlantic world as well as the development of a comparative and connected history of racial formation as a sociopolitical process in the Americas.

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