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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Part One: French Perspectives; French Caribbean Slaves Forge Their Own Ideal of Liberty in 1789; Voices Lost? Staël and Slavery, 1786-1830; Transmitting the Sense of Property Reporting on a Slave Massacre in 1847; Part Two: American Perspectives; Haitian Contributions to American History A Journalistic Record; The Tricolor in Black and White The French Revolution in Gabriel's Virginia; Greedy French Masters and Color-Conscious, Legal-Minded Spaniards in Colonial Louisiana.
  • Francophone Residents of Antebellum Baltimore and the Origins of the Oblate Sisters of ProvidencePart Three: Caribbean Perspectives; Creole, the Language of Slavery; From the Problematic Maroon to a Woman-Centered Creole Project in the Literature of the French West Indies; Exorcising Painful Memories Raphaël Confiant and Patrick Chamoiseau; Part Four: Legacies; From the Plantation to the Penitentiary Chain, Classification, and Codes of Deterrence; Maryse Condé and Slavery; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index.