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.
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2009.
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Collection: | Early American studies.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | 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. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (vi, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780812203561 0812203569 |