Something Akin to Freedom by Unknown
Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 3407163
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010-03-25T00:00:00+00:00
Understanding the benefits of plaçage elucidates the vested interest of mothers in securing white patrons for their daughters. Although Herbert Asbury characterizes the quadroon balls as âglorified slave marts, to which the mothers of the quadroon girls brought their daughters, dressed in their finery, and paraded them for inspectionâ (131), unlike the auction block, the dances offered these women significant opportunities to gain freedom, property, and power.
THE DISCURSIVE BONDAGE OF LOUISA PICQUET
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