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The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World
By Clark, Emily
- ISBN
- 9781469607528 9781469607535
- Publisher
- Univ. of North Carolina
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Reviewed on June 15, 2013 | Social Sciences
Clark (history, Tulane Univ.) follows her study of French colonial Louisiana nuns, Masterless Mistresses, with this in-depth exploration of interracial relationships between white males and free mixed-race women, commonly called quadroons, in antebellum New Orleans. Clark's thorough and meticulous research of marriage records, court documents, personal papers, and other primary sources, as well as newspapers, illuminates the complex and diverse nature of these relationships, in...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
