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A Frail Liberty : Probationary Citizens in the French and Haitian Revolutions /
"A Frail Liberty traces the paradoxical actions of the first French abolitionist society, the Societe des Amis des Noirs (Society of the Friends of Blacks), at the juncture of two unprecedented achievements of the revolutionary era: the extension of full rights of citizenship to qualifying free...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The alchemy of merit
- Sympathy ink : staging humanity in a revolutionary empire
- An ebullient summer : the Amis des Noirs organize to fight the slave trade
- Children of a common father : free people of color as objects of sympathy
- Who belongs as citizens? The antinomies of rights and freedom
- Facing insurrection : free colored rights or emancipation
- "What kind of free is this?" : probationary citizens and the dilemmas of general liberty
- Can the old colonies be saved? "Disfigured slaves" and the new abolitionism
- The hermeneutics of freedom and violence : justifying slavery after emancipation
- Conclusion : the allure and tragedy of meritorious belonging
- Epilogue : forgotten promises of representative democracy.