Sue Peabody

Madeleine's Children

Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies

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Produktbeschreibung

A gripping microhistory/legal case involving two generations of a French family enslaved in the Indian Ocean colonies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780197563618
• ISBN-10: 0197563619
• Artikelnr.: 63870540

Autorenporträt

Sue Peabody is Meyer Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and History at Washington State University Vancouver. She is the author of "There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime (OUP, 1996) and the co-editor of The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France and Slavery, Freedom and the Law in the Atlantic World.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Madeleine: A Child Slave in Pre-Colonial India
2. Crossings: Oceans, Islands, and Free Soil
3. Madeleine's Children: Family Secrets
4. The Revolution: Emancipation without Freedom
5. The Limits of Law: Madeleine's Betrayal
6. A Perfect Storm
7. Incendiary Arguments, Justice Suspended
8. English Liberties
9. Freedom Papers Hidden in His Shoe
10. Damages and Interest
Afterword
Appendices
Notes
Index