7 best-selling nonfiction books like Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803 by Kimberly S. Hanger

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Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803

By: Kimberly S. Hanger

4.24

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

During Louisiana’s Spanish colonial period, economic, political, and military conditions combined w…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803 by Kimberly S. Hanger , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s

By: John Shelton Reed

3.19

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers wi… read more

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2. The Goodness of St. Rocque; And Other Stories

By: None

3.08

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned… read more

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3. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

By: Ilyon Woo

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts

By: Gregg Hecimovich

3.87

Format: 304 pages, ebook

A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from t… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy

By: Damien Lewis

3.78

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022 Vanity Fair, Best Books of 2022 Booklist, Best Books of 2022 Si… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. The Nickel Boys

By: Colson Whitehead

4.26

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of Ameri… read more

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"Even in death the boys were trouble."

-Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

"Violence is the only lever big enough to move the world"

-Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

"People get rid of plenty when they move--sometimes they're changing not just places but personalities."

-Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

"The encyclopedias are empty. There are people who trick you and deliver emptiness with a smile, while others rob you of your self-respect. You need to remember who you are."

-Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

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7. Witch Queens, Voodoo Spirits, and Hoodoo Saints: A Guide to Magical New Orleans

By: Denise Alvarado

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A magical mystery tour of the extraordinary historical characters that have defined the unique spir… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

By: Sophie White

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

By: Joan DeJean

3.60

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found po… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803

By: Kimberly S. Hanger

4.24

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

During Louisiana’s Spanish colonial period, economic, political, and military conditions combined w… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

7 Top history books like Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803 by Kimberly S. Hanger

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Ilyon Woo

3.99

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3.87

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Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy

Damien Lewis

3.78

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Denise Alvarado

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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Erik Larson

4.24

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