Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation African Americans and the Fight for Freedom

Name: Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation African Americans and the Fight for Freedom
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ISBN: 9781469617503

ISBN-10: 1469617501

ISBN-13: 9781469617503

Edition: 2014

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Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a "quadroon," she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich archives of New Orleans tell a different story. In The Strange History of the American Quadroon, Clark investigates how the narrative of the erotic colored mistress became an elaborate literary and commercial trope, persisting as a symbol that long outlived the political and cultural purposes for which it had been created. Untangling myth and…

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List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 8/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English