Sweet liberty : the final days of slavery in Martinique /
Sweet Liberty offers a history of Martinique and its relationship to metropolitan France during the final years of slavery in the French empire. It argues that an Atlantic-world approach reveals how race, slavery, class, and gender shaped what it meant to be French on both sides of the ocean.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2009.
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Colección: | Early American studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Sweet liberty : the final days of slavery in Martinique
- "That your hearts will blossom and again become French" : the early Napoleonic period
- "Happy to consider itself an ancient British possession" : the British occupation of Martinique
- "Your French and loyal hearts" : the first decade of the restoration
- "In the colonies, it is impossible that a white would align himself with slaves" : shifts in colonial policy
- "To ensure equality before those laws to free men, whatever their color" : changing ideas of French citizenship
- "Amelioration of the white race" and "the sacred rights of property" : the end of slavery in the French Atlantic.