Freedom Papers : : An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation /

Freedom Papers : : An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation / / Rebecca J. Scott, Jean M Hébrard.

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Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the beginning of a family's quest, across five generations and three continents, for lives of dignity...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012
VerfasserIn:
Scott, Rebecca J.,
Hébrard, Jean M,
TeilnehmendeR:
Hébrard, Jean M,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 17 halftones, 1 line illustration, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Maps
  • Prologue: The Cigar Maker Writes to the General
  • 1. "Rosalie, Black Woman of the Poulard Nation"
  • 2 "Rosalie ... My Slave"
  • 3. Citizen Rosalie
  • 4. Crossing the Gulf
  • 5. The Land of the Rights of Man
  • 6. Joseph and His Brothers
  • 7. "The Term Public Rights Should Be Made to Mean Something"
  • 8. Horizons of Commerce
  • 9. Citizens beyond Nation
  • Epilogue: "For a Racial Reason"
  • NOTES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND COLLABORATIONS
  • INDEX

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