Sophie White, Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana.
In Voices of the Enslaved Sophie White reads court records from French colonial Louisiana as critiques of slavery by the enslaved. These remarkably well-documented testimonies provide invaluable glimpses into enslaved experiences before the existence of slave narratives, and White’s analysis of the...
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European journal of American studies
2022
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Gaia: | In Voices of the Enslaved Sophie White reads court records from French colonial Louisiana as critiques of slavery by the enslaved. These remarkably well-documented testimonies provide invaluable glimpses into enslaved experiences before the existence of slave narratives, and White’s analysis of them fills a critical gap in the corpus of African and African American autobiography. White contends that Louisiana has the largest and most well-preserved archive of surviving court records depictin... |
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