Sweet Home Feliciana
Family, Slavery, and the Hauntings of History
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2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-66832-3 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-66832-3 (ISBN)
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Drawing from the author's family history, this book charts the intimate and global transformation of a rural region in Louisiana from European colonialism to Jim Crow. Beyond the region's history, it offers a meditation on the US South and the ways its so-called past haunts our present.
In this tapestry of intersecting stories, including those of her own family, Rashauna Johnson charts the global transformation of a rural region in Louisiana from European colonialism to Jim Crow. From her ancestor Virgil to her cousin Veronica and her hand-sewn Mardi Gras memorial suit more than a century later, this history is one of triumphs and trauma, illustrating the ways people of African descent have created sites of endurance, belonging, and resistance. Johnson uses her grandmother's birthplace in East Feliciana as a prism to illuminate foundational, if fraught, aspects of US history including colonialism, slavery, war, citizenship, and unfinished freedom. The result is a portrait of the world in a family, a family in a region, and a region in the world that insists on the bristling and complicated relationships of people to place and creates a new understanding of what it means to be American.
In this tapestry of intersecting stories, including those of her own family, Rashauna Johnson charts the global transformation of a rural region in Louisiana from European colonialism to Jim Crow. From her ancestor Virgil to her cousin Veronica and her hand-sewn Mardi Gras memorial suit more than a century later, this history is one of triumphs and trauma, illustrating the ways people of African descent have created sites of endurance, belonging, and resistance. Johnson uses her grandmother's birthplace in East Feliciana as a prism to illuminate foundational, if fraught, aspects of US history including colonialism, slavery, war, citizenship, and unfinished freedom. The result is a portrait of the world in a family, a family in a region, and a region in the world that insists on the bristling and complicated relationships of people to place and creates a new understanding of what it means to be American.
Rashauna Johnson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of the prizewinning book Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions.
List of plates; List of figures; List of maps; List of abbreviations; Preface: The wondrousful weight of history; Introduction: 'A looking glass for the world'; 1. Native lands; 2. Revolutions; 3. Un/Settlement; 4. Worlds; 5. Futures; 6. War; 7. Un/Freedom; 8. Sanctuary; Epilogue: 'Again'; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-66832-3 / 1009668323 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-66832-3 / 9781009668323 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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