Title Becoming free, becoming Black : race, freedom, and law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana [Hoopla electronic resource] / Alejandro de la Fuente, Ariela J. Gross.

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Unabridged.

Publication Info.	[United States] : Tantor Audio, 2021.
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Description	1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 52 min.)) : digital.
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Series	Studies in legal history.
Access	Digital content provided by hoopla.
Cast	Read by Gary Tiedemann.
Summary	How did Africans become "blacks" in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies-Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana-Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that the law of freedom-not slavery-established the meaning of blackness in law. Contests over freedom determined whether and how it was possible to move from slave to free status, and whether claims to citizenship would be tied to racial identity. Laws regulating the lives and institutions of free people of color created the boundaries between black and white, the rights reserved to white people, and the degradations imposed only on black people.
System Details	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject	Blacks -- America -- History.
	Slavery -- America -- History.
	Blacks -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- America -- History.
	African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History.
	Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Cuba -- History.
	Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Louisiana -- History.
	Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Virginia -- History.
	America -- Race relations -- History.
Added Author	Gross, Ariela Julie, author.
	hoopla digital.
ISBN	9781705251270 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
	1705251277 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
Music No.	MWT13697912

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