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The Formation of a Three-Caste Society: Evidence from Wills in Antebellum New Orleans

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Paul F. Lachance
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In the Americas, two types of racial systems developed at the confluence of migration streams from Europe and Africa. In the Caribbean, free persons of color emerged as an intermediary group between whites and large populations of Negro slaves. In British mainland colonies, whites came to treat all blacks, whether free or enslaved, mulatto or Negro, as a single social category (Hoetink 1967; Mörner 1967: 136–38).

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Social Science History , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , Summer 1994 , pp. 211 - 242
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1994 

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