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ONLINE

1st ed.

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020

1 online resource (272 pages)

ISBN 9781789622584 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781789622249

Liverpool Studies in International Slavery Ser. ; v.17

Print version: McLaughlin-Stonham, Hilary From Slavery to Civil Rights Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,c2020 ISBN 9781789622249

Cover -- Contents -- Tables -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Legal and Social Colour Distinctions in Antebellum Louisiana -- 2 Streetcars and Protest -- 3 The Rise of White Supremacy -- 4 Streetcars and the End of Colour -- 5 Resistance and Compliance -- 6 Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

As a window into New Orleans society, From Slavery to Civil Rights chronicles segregation on the streetcars of New Orleans over two centuries and discovers the impact of local and national events on a segregated system that was, at times, both surprisingly rigid and elastic over the period..

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(OCoLC)1195553626