Clark, Emily - The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World (2013) Source Information

Clark, Emily - The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World (2013) Source Information Author: Emily Clark Full Title: The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Year: 2013 Type: Secondary Source - Free Women of Color, Atlantic Refugees, Racial Mythmaking, and New Orleans Memory Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/ Full Text: clark quadroon.txt Status Text extracted: Yes - clark quadroon.txt Review pass: Completed (2026-03-27) - free-colored women and Atlantic-racial-imagination pass focused on refugee movement, quadroon mythology, and the plaçage correction Chapter notes: clark quadroon ch notes Graph review in this pass: Created menagere, placage complex, and quadroon figure; strengthened free women of color, moc society culture, and moc sources Overview Clark is one of the vault's most useful correctives for writing or thinking about free women of color in the Atlantic world without falling into inherited myth. The book is not primarily a catalogue of interracial liaisons in New Orleans. It is a history of how a descriptive color term became a sexualized political symbol and how women from saint domingue were folded into that symbolic work.