The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

by Emily Clark

PDF, 2015

Publication

University of North Carolina Press (2015), Edition: Reprint, 296 pages

ISBN

1469622068 / 9781469622064

Tags

mixed-race studies, whiteness studies, New France, colonialism - French, Black women's history

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Notes

Prologue Evolution of a Color Term and an American City’s Alienation
1 The Philadelphia Quadroon
Chapter Two From Ménagère to Placée
Chapter Three Con Otros Muchos
Chapter Four Bachelor Patriarchs
Chapter Five Making Up the Quadroon
Chapter Six Selling the Quadroon
Epilogue Reimagining the Quadroon
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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