Enslaved archives : slavery, law, and the production of the past / Maria R. Montalvo.
2024
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Enslaved archives : slavery, law, and the production of the past / Maria R. Montalvo.
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Project Muse.
Imprint
Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2024]
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©2024
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1 online resource
Formatted Contents Note
John and a Bill of Sale : Creating Property in Antebellum New Orleans
Isaac Wright : Enslavement and Historical Narratives
Jack Smith : an Individual History and the Courtroom
Transforming Betsey into Rachel
Sarah Ann Connor : Freedom and the Archive.
Isaac Wright : Enslavement and Historical Narratives
Jack Smith : an Individual History and the Courtroom
Transforming Betsey into Rachel
Sarah Ann Connor : Freedom and the Archive.
Summary
"Explores the relationship between the production of enslaved property and the production of the past in the antebellum United States. It is extraordinarily difficult for historians to reconstruct the lives of individual enslaved people. Records (where they exist) are often fragmentary, biased, or untrue. Maria R. Montalvo investigates the legal records, including contracts and court records, that American antebellum enslavers produced and preserved to illuminate enslavers' capitalistic motivations for shaping the histories of enslaved people. By examining five lawsuits in Louisiana, Montalvo deconstructs enslavers' cases--the legal arguments and rhetorical strategies they used to produce information and shape perceptions of enslaved people. Commodifying enslaved people was not simply a matter of effectively exploiting their labor. Enslavers also needed to control information about those people. Enslavers' narratives--carefully manipulated, prone to omissions, and sometimes false--often survive as the only account of an enslaved individual's life"-- Provided by the publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historical Data
Maria R. Montalvo is a historian of slavery, capitalism, and the law in the nineteenth-century United States. She is an assistant professor of History at Emory University.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed July 9, 2024).
Available in Other Form
Print version: Montalvo, Maria R., 1989- Enslaved archives. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024
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Open access
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Language
English
ISBN
9781421449470 (electronic book)
1421449471 (electronic book)
9781421449500 (electronic book)
1421449501 (electronic book)
9781421449463 (hardback)
1421449463 (hardback)
1421449471 (electronic book)
9781421449500 (electronic book)
1421449501 (electronic book)
9781421449463 (hardback)
1421449463 (hardback)
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