Chapter 2. Making a Career out of the Atlantic: Louisiana’s Plume

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Louisiana in Atlantic Perspective 1
4. Part I. Empires
5. Chapter 1. “To Establish One Law and Definite Rules”: Race, Religion, and the Transatlantic Origins of the Louisiana Code Noir 21
6. Chapter 2. Making a Career out of the Atlantic: Louisiana’s Plume 44
7. Chapter 3. Spanish Louisiana in Atlantic Contexts: Nexus of Imperial Transactions and International Relations 68
8. Part II. Circulations
9. Chapter 4. Slaves and Poor Whites’ Informal Economies in an Atlantic Context 89
10. Chapter 5. “Un Nègre nommè [sic] Lubin ne connaissant pas Sa Nation”: The Small World of Louisiana Slavery 103
11. Part III. Intimacies
12. Chapter 6. Caribbean Louisiana: Church, Métissage, and the Language of Race in the Mississippi Colony during the French Period 125
13. Chapter 7. Private Lives and Public Orders: Regulating Sex, Marriage, and Legitimacy in Spanish Colonial Louisiana 147
14. Chapter 8. Atlantic Alliances: Marriage among People of African Descent in New Orleans 165
15. Conclusion. Beyond Borders: Revising Atlantic History 184
16. Notes 205
17. Contributors 271
18. Index 273
19. Acknowledgments 279