To be free and French citizenship in France's Atlantic empire
The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and 'Frenchness' for themselves, but Lorelle Semley reveals that this event was just one moment in a longer struggle of women and men of color for rights under the F...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2017
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| Series: | Critical perspectives on empire
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: Coincidental Crossings
- Part I: Revolutionary Foundations
- Prologue: Citizens of the World
- To Live and Die, Free and French
- Signares Before Citizens
- Part II: Colonial Constructions
- When Blacks Broke the Chains in the "Little Paris of the Antilles"
- The Trans-African Origins of Porto-Novo
- An "Evolution Revolution" in Paris
- Part III: Planning After Empire
- A More Perfect French Union
- Epilogue: The Art of Citizenship