Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss

Sweet Liberty

The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780812222272
• ISBN-10: 081222227X
• Artikelnr.: 35563318

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss is Associate Professor of History at Texas AandM University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique
1. "That Your Hearts Will Blossom and Again Become French": The Early
Napoleonic Period
2. "Happy to Consider Itself an Ancient British Possession": The British
Occupation of Martinique
3. "Your French and Loyal Hearts": The First Decade of the Restoration
4. "In the Colonies, It Is Impossible That a White Would Align Himself With
Slaves": Shifts in Colonial Policy
5. "To Ensure Equality Before Those Laws to Free Men, Whatever Their
Color": Changing Ideas of French Citizenship
6. "Amelioration of the White Race" and "The Sacred Rights of Property":
The End of Slavery in the French Atlantic
Conclusion
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Illustrations follow page 108