The Stability of Fortunes : A Free Black Woman, Her Legacy, and the Legal Archive in Antebellum New Orleans

After Eugene Macarty's death in 1846, his white distant heirs sued Eulalie Mandeville, Eugene's partner of fifty years and a free woman of color, for approximately $155,000. This article follows the trial that ensued, Macarty et al. v. Mandeville, a Louisiana civil suit that lasted two yea...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the Civil War Era. - University of North Carolina Press. - 12(2022), 4, Seite 473-502
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