Category: Slavery

  • Race Law Stories Foundation Press 2008 624 pages ISBN-13: 9781599410012 Edited by Rachel F. Moran, Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles Devon Wayne Carbado, Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles Race Law Stories brings to life well-known and not-so-well known legal opinions—hidden gems—that address slavery, Native American…

  • For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses–not just their eyes–to construct racial difference and define race.

  • Most Texas history books name Norris Wright Cuney as one of the most influential African American politicians in nineteenth-century Texas, but they tell little about him beyond his elected positions. In The Cuneys, Douglas Hales not only fills in the details of Cuney’s life and contributions but places him in the context of his family’s…

  • One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870 University of Massachusetts Press June 2005 288 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-1-55849-483-1 Karen Woods Weierman, Associate Professor of English Worcester State University Examines the roots of a pernicious and persistent American taboo The proscription against interracial marriage was for many years a flashpoint…

  • The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans Rutgers University Press 2007-03-28 168 pages 9 b&w illustrations Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4058-0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4057-3 Carol Wilson, Arthur A. and Elizabeth R. Knapp Professor of American History Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland In 1843, the Louisiana Supreme Court heard the case of a…

  • Since pre-colonial days, America has been both torn apart and united by love, sex, and marriage across racial boundaries. Whether motivated by violent conquest, economics, lust, or love, such unions have disturbed some of America’s most sacred beliefs and prejudices.

  • This book is the first to explore the history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America’s past: liaisons between Southern white women and black men.

  • Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country University Press of Mississippi 1994 192 pages Paper ISBN: 0878059490, ISBN 13: 9780878059492 Carl A. Brasseaux, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism University of Louisiana, Lafayette Claude F. Oubre Keith P. Fontenot Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of…

  • The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean Duke University Press May 2005 408 pages 19 b&w photographs Cloth ISBN: 0-8223-3453-4, ISBN13 978-0-8223-3453-8 Paperback ISBN: 0-8223-3465-8, ISBN13 978-0-8223-3465-1 Doris Garraway, Associate Professor of French Northwestern University Presenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the inception of colonization in the 1640s…

  • Pearl’s Secret: A Black Man’s Search for His White Family University of California Press May 2001 Paperback ISBN: 9780520227309 321 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 25 b/w photographs, 2 line illustrations Neil Henry, Associate Professor of Journalism University of California, Berkeley Pearl’s Secret is a remarkable autobiography and family story that combines elements of history,…