Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a "quadroon," sh

Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms. In this book, A. B. Wilkinson complicates that history by investigati

An Infinity of Nations explores the formation and development of a Native New World in North America. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, indigenous peo

This book explores the intertwined histories of Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Although separated by an ocean, both cities were founded durin