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Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana

2021; Duke University Press; Volume: 101; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1215/00182168-8796649

1527-1900

Keila Grinberg,

Race, History, and American Society

Book Review| February 01 2021 Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana. By de la Fuente, Alejandro and Gross, Ariela J.Studies in Legal History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Index. xiv, 281 pp. Cloth, $24.95. Keila Grinberg Keila Grinberg Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 158–159. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796649 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Keila Grinberg; Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 February 2021; 101 (1): 158–159. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796649 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search It's impossible to read Becoming Free, Becoming Black without thinking about Frank Tannenbaum's classic Slave and Citizen (1946), the book that inaugurated the field of comparative slavery and race relations in the Americas. Like Tannenbaum, Ariela Gross and Alejandro de la Fuente raise broad questions as they seek to understand the persistence of race inequalities, mostly in the United States, by comparing the US slave past with other slave societies in the Americas. Also like Tannenbaum, they offer comprehensive explanations.But the similarities end there. By examining the development of the legal regimes of slavery and race in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana, de la Fuente and Gross focus on changes in each society over time, emphasizing a historical approach lacking in Tannenbaum's book and rejecting his strict opposition between Anglo-Saxon and Latin American societies. In that sense, their choice of the jurisdictions... Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press2021 You do not currently have access to this content.