| Description |
xxiii, 247 p. : charts ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Based on a conference held at the University of Georgia in Oct. 1997. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-235) and index. |
| Contents |
French Caribbean slaves forge their own ideal of liberty in 1789 / Catherine Reinhardt -- Voices lost? Stael and slavery, 1786-1830 / John Claiborne Isbell -- Transmitting the sense of property : reporting on a slave massacre in 1847 / Gabriel Moyal -- Haitian contributions to American history : a journalistic record / Leara Rhodes -- Tricolor in black and white : the French Revolution in Gabriel's Virginia / Douglas Egerton -- Greedy French masters and color-conscious, legal-minded Spaniards in colonial Louisiana / Kimberly S. Hanger -- Francophone residents of antebellum Baltimore and the origins of the Oblate Sisters of Providence / Diane Batts Morrow -- Creole, the language of slavery / Albert Valdman -- From the problematic Maroon to a woman-centered Creole project in the literature of the French West Indies / A. James Arnold -- Exorcising painful memories : Raphael Confiant and Patrick Chamoiseau / Marie-Jose N'Zengou-Tayo -- From the plantation to the penitentiary : chain, classification, and codes of deterrence / Joan Dayan -- Maryse Conde and slavery / Doris Y. Kadish. |
| Subject |
Slavery -- West Indies, French -- History -- Congresses.
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Slave insurrections -- West Indies, French -- History -- Congresses.
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Slaves -- West Indies, French -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Kadish, Doris Y.
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| ISBN |
0820321664 (alk. paper) |
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