308 Slavery and Freedom in French Louisiana
Ben Franklin's World
English - August 03, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsHistory Society & Culture americanrevolution benfranklin history ushistory benjaminfranklin colonialamerica earlyamericanhistory earlyamericanrepublic earlyrepublic education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The story of freedom in colonial New Orleans and Louisiana pivoted on the choices black women made to retain control of their bodies, families, and futures.
How did black women in colonial Louisiana navigate French and Spanish black and slavery codes to retain control of their bodies, families, and futures?
Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and author of the award-winning book Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World, joins us to investigate answers to this question and to reveal what viewing the history of the Atlantic World through the histories of slavery and gender can show us about what life was really like for colonists, settlers, and the enslaved.
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