{"product_id":"voices-of-the-enslaved-love-labor-and-longing-in-french-louisiana-9781469666266","title":"Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana","description":"In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they answered with stories about themselves, stories that rebutted the premise on which slavery was founded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on four especially dramatic court cases, \u003ci\u003eVoices of the Enslaved\u003c\/i\u003e draws us into Louisiana's courtrooms, prisons, courtyards, plantations, bayous, and convents to understand how the enslaved viewed and experienced their worlds. As they testified, these individuals charted their movement between West African, indigenous, and colonial cultures; they pronounced their moral and religious values; and they registered their responses to labor, to violence, and, above all, to the intimate romantic and familial bonds they sought to create and protect. Their words--punctuated by the cadences of Creole and rich with metaphor--produced riveting autobiographical narratives as they veered from the questions posed by interrogators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarefully assessing what we can discover, what we might guess, and what has been lost forever, Sophie White offers both a richly textured account of slavery in French Louisiana and a powerful meditation on the limits and possibilities of the archive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite, Sophie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Sophie White is professor of American studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eHearing Enslaved Voices: African and Indian Slave Testimony in British and French America, 1700-1848\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Omohundro Institute and Unc Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50561495171346,"sku":"9781469666266","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_71d015ad-f2ce-4f2f-a659-2b049e579383.jpg?v=1731847488","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/voices-of-the-enslaved-love-labor-and-longing-in-french-louisiana-9781469666266","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}