TY - BOOK ID - 85746530 TI - Bounded lives, bounded places: free Black society in colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803 PY - 1997 SN - 1283062534 9786613062536 0822382075 0822318989 0822319063 PB - North Carolina Duke University Press DB - UniCat KW - Free African Americans KW - Spaniards KW - Spanish people KW - Ethnology KW - Free Afro-Americans KW - Free blacks KW - African Americans KW - History KW - New Orleans (La.) KW - Louisiana KW - History. KW - Free Black people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85746530 AB - During Louisiana's Spanish colonial period, economic, political, and military conditions combined with local cultural and legal traditions to favor the growth and development of a substantial group of free blacks. In Bounded Lives, Bounded Places, Kimberly S. Hanger explores the origin of antebellum New Orleans' large, influential, and propertied free black-or libre-population, one that was unique in the South. Hanger examines the issues libres confronted as they individually and collectively contested their ambiguous status in a complexly stratified society.Drawi ER -