Author: François-Xavier MartinPublisher:
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Category : Land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
A General Digest of the Acts of the Legislatures of the Late Territory of Orleans and of the State of Louisiana, and the Ordinances of the Governor Under the Territorial Government
Author: François-Xavier MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
A General Digest of the Acts of the Legislatures of the Late Territory of Orleans and of the State of Louisiana, and the Ordinances of the Governor Under the Territorial Government
Author: LouisianaPublisher:
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Category : Land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Supplemental Catalogue of the Law Department of the California State Library
Author: California State Library. Law DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Supplemental Catalogue of the Law Department of the California State Library
Author: California State Library. Law SectionPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Consent in the Presence of Force
Author: Emily A. OwensPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469670526
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually unregulated—even normalized—a vast economy developed specifically to sell the sexual labor of Black women. In this vividly rendered book, Emily A. Owens wrestles with the question of why white men paid notoriously high prices to gain sexual access to the bodies of enslaved women to whom they already had legal and social access. Owens centers the survival strategies and intellectual labor of Black women enslaved in New Orleans to unravel the culture of violence they endured, in which slaveholders obscured "the presence of force" with arrangements that included gifts and money. Owens's storytelling highlights that the classic formulation of rape law that requires "the presence of force" and "the absence of consent" to denote a crime was in fact a key legal fixture that packaged predation as pleasure and produced, rather than prevented, violence against Black women. Owens dramatically reorients our understanding of enslaved women's lives as well as of the nature of violence in the entire venture of racial slavery in the U.S. South. Unsettling the idea that consent is necessarily incompatible with structural and interpersonal violence, this history shows that when sex is understood as a transaction, women are imagined as responsible for their own violation.
Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
Judges of the United States
Author: Judicial Conference of the United States. Bicentennial CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans
Author: Jennifer M. SpearPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801898781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Winner, 2009 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association A microcosm of exaggerated societal extremes—poverty and wealth, vice and virtue, elitism and equality—New Orleans is a tangled web of race, cultural mores, and sexual identities. Jennifer M. Spear's examination of the dialectical relationship between politics and social practice unravels the city’s construction of race during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Spear brings together archival evidence from three different languages and the most recent and respected scholarship on racial formation and interracial sex to explain why free people of color became a significant population in the early days of New Orleans and to show how authorities attempted to use concepts of race and social hierarchy to impose order on a decidedly disorderly society. She recounts and analyzes the major conflicts that influenced New Orleanian culture: legal attempts to impose racial barriers and social order, political battles over propriety and freedom, and cultural clashes over place and progress. At each turn, Spear’s narrative challenges the prevailing academic assumptions and supports her efforts to move exploration of racial formation away from cultural and political discourses and toward social histories. Strikingly argued, richly researched, and methodologically sound, this wide-ranging look at how choices about sex triumphed over established class systems and artificial racial boundaries supplies a refreshing contribution to the history of early Louisiana.
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