Freedom papers : an Atlantic odyssey in the age of emancipation /

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Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the beginning of a family's quest, across five generations and three continents, for lives of dignity...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Scott, Rebecca J. (Rebecca Jarvis), 1950- (Autor), Hébrard, Jean M. (Jean Michel), 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Tinchant family.
Tinchant (Famille)
Tinchant family
Creoles > Atlantic Ocean Region > Migrations.
Creoles > Atlantic Ocean Region > Social conditions.
Creoles > Atlantic Ocean Region > Biography.
Black people > Atlantic Ocean Region > Migrations.
Black people > Atlantic Ocean Region > Social conditions.
Black people > Atlantic Ocean Region > Biography.
Créoles > Atlantique, Région de l' > Migrations.
Créoles > Atlantique, Région de l' > Conditions sociales.
Créoles > Atlantique, Région de l' > Biographies.
Personnes noires > Atlantique, Région de l' > Migrations.
Personnes noires > Atlantique, Région de l' > Biographies.
Personnes noires > Atlantique, Région de l' > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Black Studies (Global)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Black people
Black people > Social conditions
Creoles
Creoles > Social conditions
Atlantic Ocean Region
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: The cigar maker writes to the general
  • "Rosalie, black woman of the Poulard nation"
  • "Rosalie ... my slave"
  • Citizen Rosalie
  • Crossing the gulf
  • The land of the rights of man
  • Joseph and his brothers
  • "The term public rights should be made to mean something"
  • Horizons of commerce
  • Citizens beyond nation
  • Epilogue: "For a racial reason."

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