Neither Slave nor Free

The Freedman of African Descent in the Slave Societies of the New World

David W. Cohen, Jack P. Greene

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781421441184
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: African American History
• Index: Social Sciences

"The ten essays deal with colonial Spanish America, Surinam and Curacao, colonial Brazil, the French Antilles, Saint Domingue, Jamaica, Barbados, the North American slave states, Cuba, and nineteenth-century Brazil . . . . One also gets a strong sense from these papers of the rich variation within each society . . . . An important book."—Journal of Southern History

"A distinctive contribution to the enticing but treacherous domain of comparative history. It succeeds because it is written by qualified scholars who address a delimited, manageable subject . . . . The task was to canvass current knowledge and pinpoint areas of needed research regarding two topics: first, the experience of the free colored as a measure of the character of slavery and race relations; second, the fundamental roles of this group in the evolution of the respective societies."—American Historical Review

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Colonial Spanish America
• 2 Surinam and Curaçao
• 3 Colonial Brazil
• 4 The French Antilles
• 5 Saint Domingue
• 6 Jamaica
• 7 Barbados
• 8 The Slave States of North America
• 9 Cuba
• 10 Nineteenth-Century Brazil
• Appendix: Population Tables
• Index