Gender, Race and documentation played a huge role in Freedom Papers. Women and children of color were exempted from posting bond and leaving the Louisiana Territory, but men were not. Newly arrived black men, women and children were put to slavery in New Orleans. Also, the governor of Madrid thought it was necessary to humiliate the women in from on their owners.
The white men would use the slaves to fight wars the white men had started, that the slaves had nothing to do with. When Couba acquired, and 3 years later, married his slave, she was automatically freed in Saint Dominique Code.
Lastly, documentation was a bid deal then. Even if slaves were freed, they would still have to constantly prove their freedom with documentation pretty much everywhere.
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