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The fear of French negroes : transcolonial collaboration in the revolutionary Americas /

The Fear of French Negroes is an interdisciplinary study that explores how people of African descent responded to the collapse and reconsolidation of colonial life in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1845). Using visual culture, popular music and dance, periodical literature, historical...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, Sara E. (Sara Elizabeth)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2012]
Colección:Flashpoints (Berkeley, Calif.) ; 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Mobile Culture, Mobilized Politics
  • 1. Canine Warfare in the Circum-Caribbean; Cuban Bloodhounds and Transcolonial Terror Networks; A Discursive Battle of Wills; Culture and Public Memory
  • 2. "Une et indivisible?" The Struggle for Freedom in Hispaniola; "L'île d'Haiti forme le territoire de la République": The Early Years of Antislavery Border Politics; The Meaning of Freedom; Haitian Generals: Ogou Iconography on Both Sides of the Border; Guangua pangnol pi fort pasé ouanga Haitien
  • 3. "Negroes of the Most Desperate Character": Privateering and Slavery in the Gulf of Mexico Race, Privateering, and the Gulf South in the 1810s; To Fight Ably and Valiantly against One's Own Race; The Cultural Afterlives of Impossible Patriots
  • 4. French Set Girls and Transcolonial Performance; The French Set Girls; Reconsidering the Migration of "French" Cultural Capital; Embodied Wisdom and Attunement; Circum-Caribbean Repercussions of Saint-Domingue; Legacies
  • 5. "Sentinels on the Watch-Tower of Freedom": The Black Press of the 1830s and 1840s. Periodical Campaigns: Promoting an African Diasporic Literacy Project Class, Migration, and Transcolonial Labor Relations; Caribbean Federation: Advancing National Interests through a Regionalist Lens
  • Epilogue.