Review of Bounded Lives, Bounded Places

Bounded Lives, Bounded Places Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans The role of slaves in the Old South was always marked as one of servitude towards the master. Lives were spent with a master, with generation after generation of blacks serving their white masters. Some were fortunate enough to gain freedom, yet most never tasted that luxury. However, during Louisiana’s Spanish colonial period, there was a huge growth in the development of free …

…black society in colonial New Orleans. Hangar, with her extensive research, reconstructed this world and helped shed light that a strong, successful free black society did exist in the South. Not only did this change my views on slavery as an institution but it altered my views on the heavy influences that contributed in establishing New Orleans as the melting pot of cultures and distinct influences that are present in its society and culture today.