The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World by Emily Clark

The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

Emily Clark

296 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

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Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a quadroon, she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imag...

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