Umfang:
Online-Ressource (x, 396 p)
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Ausgabe:
1st ed
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1403971404
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1403984433
Serie:
Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World Ser.
Inhalt:
Details how France's most profitable plantation colony became Haiti, Latin America's first independent nation, through an uprising by slaves. This work explains the origins of this free colored class, exposes the ways its members supported and challenged slavery, and examines how they shaped a new 'American' identity
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-380) and index
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Development of Creole Society on the Colonial Frontier; 2 Race and Class in Creole Society: Saint-Domingue in the 1760s; 3 Freedom, Slavery, and the French Colonial State; 4 Reform and Revolt after the Seven Years' War; 5 Citizenship and Racism in the New Public Sphere; 6 The Rising Economic Power of Free People of Color in the 1780s; 7 Proving Free Colored Virtue; 8 Free People of Color in the Southern Peninsula and the Origins of the Haitian Revolution, 1789-1791; 9 Revolution and Republicanism in Aquin Parish
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EpilogueNotes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780230108370
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Before Haiti : Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue
Sprache:
Englisch
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