Title Complexion of empire in Natchez : race and slavery in the Mississippi borderlands / Christian Pinnen

Published Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 310 pages) : illustrations Series Early American places Early American places. Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Purity of Blood and Dark Complexions: French Empire Building in the Lower Mississippi Valley -- 2 English Bloodlines and the Expansion of Empire: Natchez 1763 to 1779 -- 3 Masters of Complexion? Loyalists, Patriots, and Opportunists in the Colonial Backcountry -- 4 Spanish Complexions in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Making Race in Natchez -- 5 Gendered Complexions: Freedom and Interracial Relationships in Spanish Natchez 6 New Crop, New Rules of Complexion: From Prince Tobacco to King Cotton -- 7 Mississippi Fever: Fortifying the ""Malignant Empire"" of Complexion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed July 11, 2022) Subject Slavery -- Mississippi -- History HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775) Race relations Slavery SUBJECT Natchez (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History Mississippi -- Race relations -- History Subject Mississippi -- Natchez Mississippi Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780820358512 0820358517

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