LEADER 05047nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910452407303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-2227-X 010 $a1-283-89054-2 010 $a0-8122-0356-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203561 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104580 035 $a(OCoLC)802052848 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576131 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000811925 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12344623 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000811925 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10851142 035 $a(PQKB)10334024 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000686558 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11481442 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000686558 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10733024 035 $a(PQKB)10839166 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441690 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18481 035 $a(DE-B1597)449191 035 $a(OCoLC)1013957180 035 $a(OCoLC)979753707 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203561 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441690 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576131 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420304 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104580 100 $a20081202d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSweet liberty$b[electronic resource] $ethe final days of slavery in Martinique /$fRebecca Hartkopf Schloss 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (311 p.) 225 1 $aEarly American studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4172-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction. Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique -- $tChapter one. "That Your Hearts Will Blossom and Again Become French": The Early Napoleonic Period -- $tChapter two. "Happy to Consider Itself an Ancient British Possession": The British Occupation of Martinique -- $tChapter three. "Your French and Loyal Hearts": The First Decade of the Restoration -- $tChapter four. "In the Colonies, It Is Impossible That a White Would Align Himself with Slaves": Shifts in Colonial Policy -- $tChapter five. "To Ensure Equality Before Those Laws to Free Men, Whatever Their Color": Changing Ideas of French Citizenship -- $tChapter six. "Amelioration of the White Race" and "The Sacred Rights of Property": The End of Slavery in the French Atlantic -- $tConclusion -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aFrom its founding, Martinique played an integral role in France's Atlantic empire. Established in the mid-seventeenth century as a colonial outpost against Spanish and English dominance in the Caribbean, the island was transformed by the increase in European demand for sugar, coffee, and indigo. Like other colonial subjects, Martinicans met the labor needs of cash-crop cultivation by establishing plantations worked by enslaved Africans and by adopting the rigidly hierarchical social structure that accompanied chattel slavery. After Haiti gained its independence in 1804, Martinique's economic importance to the French empire increased. At the same time, questions arose, both in France and on the island, about the long-term viability of the plantation system, including debates about the ways colonists-especially enslaved Africans and free mixed-race individuals-fit into the French nation.Sweet Liberty chronicles the history of Martinique from France's reacquisition of the island from the British in 1802 to the abolition of slavery in 1848. Focusing on the relationship between the island's widely diverse society and the various waves of French and British colonial administrations, Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss provides a compelling account of Martinique's social, political, and cultural dynamics during the final years of slavery in the French empire. Schloss explores how various groups-Creole and metropolitan elites, petits blancs, gens de couleur, and enslaved Africans-interacted with one another in a constantly shifting political environment and traces how these interactions influenced the colony's debates around identity, citizenship, and the boundaries of the French nation.Based on extensive archival research in Europe and the Americas, Sweet Liberty is a groundbreaking study of a neglected region that traces how race, slavery, class, and gender shaped what it meant to be French on both sides of the Atlantic. 410 0$aEarly American studies. 606 $aSlavery$zMartinique$xHistory 606 $aSlaves$zMartinique$xHistory 607 $aMartinique$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory. 615 0$aSlaves$xHistory. 676 $a306.3/620972982 700 $aSchloss$b Rebecca Hartkopf$f1970-$01032491 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452407303321 996 $aSweet liberty$92450389 997 $aUNINA