Sweet liberty : the final days of slavery in Martinique /

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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Schloss, Rebecca Hartkopf, 1970-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009.
Collection:Early American studies.
Sujets:
Slavery > Martinique > History.
Enslaved persons > Martinique > History.
Esclaves > Martinique > Histoire.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > General.
Slavery
Enslaved persons
Abschaffung
Sklaverei
Martinique > History.
Martinique
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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