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Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana McFarland Publishing as iconic — orHow did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that the law of