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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812699303321

Autore

Dubois Laurent <1971->

Titolo

A colony of citizens : revolution & slave emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 / / Laurent Dubois

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] ; ; London, [England] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

0-8078-3902-7

1-4696-0105-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (467 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

326/.8/0972976

Soggetti

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - West Indies, French - History

Slave rebellions - West Indies, French - History

West Indies, French History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Insurrection and the language of rights -- A social cartography -- Prophetic rumor -- The insurgent republic -- The arrival of emancipation -- Making slaves citizens -- Worthy of the nation -- War and emancipation -- The mark of freedom -- The revolution's spiral -- The promise of revolution -- The road to Matouba -- Defending the republic -- The new imperial order -- "Vivre libre ou mourir!" -- The exiled republic.