04338nam 2200745 a 450 991045276670332120220131165804.01-282-13420-597866138067890-520-95378-910.1525/9780520953789(CKB)2550000000105910(EBL)977265(OCoLC)801363598(SSID)ssj0000703130(PQKBManifestationID)11419873(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703130(PQKBWorkID)10687389(PQKB)10310181(MiAaPQ)EBC977265(MdBmJHUP)muse31071(DE-B1597)521143(OCoLC)808341833(DE-B1597)9780520953789(Au-PeEL)EBL977265(CaPaEBR)ebr10582904(CaONFJC)MIL380678(EXLCZ)99255000000010591020120222d2012 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrThe fear of French negroes[electronic resource] transcolonial collaboration in the revolutionary Americas /Sara E. JohnsonBerkeley University of California Press20121 online resource (313 p.)Flashpoints ;12Description based upon print version of record.0-520-27112-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --List of Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Preface: The Fear of "French Negroes" --Introduction: Mobile Culture, Mobilized Politics --1. Canine Warfare in the Circum-Caribbean --2. "Une et indivisible?" The Struggle for Freedom in Hispaniola --3. "Negroes of the Most Desperate Character": Privateering and Slavery in the Gulf of Mexico --4. French Set Girls and Transcolonial Performance --5. "Sentinels on the Watch-Tower of Freedom": The Black Press of the 1830's and 1840's --Epilogue --Notes --Works Consulted and Discography --IndexThe Fear of French Negroes is an interdisciplinary study that explores how people of African descent responded to the collapse and reconsolidation of colonial life in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1845). Using visual culture, popular music and dance, periodical literature, historical memoirs, and state papers, Sara E. Johnson examines the migration of people, ideas, and practices across imperial boundaries. Building on previous scholarship on black internationalism, she traces expressions of both aesthetic and experiential transcolonial black politics across the Caribbean world, including Hispaniola, Louisiana and the Gulf South, Jamaica, and Cuba. Johnson examines the lives and work of figures as diverse as armed black soldiers and privateers, female performers, and newspaper editors to argue for the existence of "competing inter-Americanisms" as she uncovers the struggle for unity amidst the realities of class, territorial, and linguistic diversity. These stories move beyond a consideration of the well-documented anxiety insurgent blacks occasioned in slaveholding systems to refocus attention on the wide variety of strategic alliances they generated in their quests for freedom, equality and profit.Flashpoints (Berkeley, Calif.) ;12.Black peopleCaribbean AreaHistory19th centuryBlack peopleGulf Coast (U.S.)History19th centuryBlack peopleRace identityCaribbean AreaHistory19th centuryBlack peopleRace identityGulf Coast (U.S.)History19th centuryBlack peopleMigrationsHistory19th centuryHaitiHistoryRevolution, 1791-1804InfluenceElectronic books.Black peopleHistoryBlack peopleHistoryBlack peopleRace identityHistoryBlack peopleRace identityHistoryBlack peopleMigrationsHistory305.896/969729Johnson Sara E(Sara Elizabeth)1033152MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452766703321The fear of French negroes2451541UNINA