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Becoming Free, Becoming Black
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Becoming Free, Becoming Black offers the first comparative study of law, race, and freedom in the Americas from the sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. Slaveholders linked blackness and slavery in the law, but by the mid- nineteenth century the social meaning of blackness varied over time and under different legal regimes.
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Becoming Free, Becoming Black, Cambridge University Press
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- 2020
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- Title
- Becoming Free, Becoming Black
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Cambridge University Press
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 1108480640
- ISBN13
- 9781108480642
- Category
- Social sciences, Legal literature
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- Becoming Free, Becoming Black offers the first comparative study of law, race, and freedom in the Americas from the sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. Slaveholders linked blackness and slavery in the law, but by the mid- nineteenth century the social meaning of blackness varied over time and under different legal regimes.