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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Scott, Rebecca J. (Rebecca Jarvis), 1950- (Author), Hébrard, Jean M. (Jean Michel), 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Tinchant family.
Tinchant (Famille)
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.
Noirs > Atlantique, Région de l' > Migrations.
Noirs > Atlantique, Région de l' > Biographies.
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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