LEADER 04430nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910791940203321 005 20230126204247.0 010 $a0-674-06516-6 010 $a0-674-06840-8 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674065161 035 $a(CKB)2560000000082493 035 $a(EBL)3301066 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000656039 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11401584 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000656039 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10631555 035 $a(PQKB)11439020 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301066 035 $a(DE-B1597)178186 035 $a(OCoLC)794004263 035 $a(OCoLC)840441466 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674065161 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301066 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10568009 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000082493 100 $a20110923d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFreedom papers$b[electronic resource] $ean Atlantic odyssey in the age of emancipation /$fRebecca J. Scott and Jean M. He?brard 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-41691-0 311 $a0-674-04774-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tMaps --$tPrologue: The Cigar Maker Writes to the General --$t1. "Rosalie, Black Woman of the Poulard Nation" --$t2 "Rosalie ... My Slave" --$t3. Citizen Rosalie --$t4. Crossing the Gulf --$t5. The Land of the Rights of Man --$t6. Joseph and His Brothers --$t7. "The Term Public Rights Should Be Made to Mean Something" --$t8. Horizons of Commerce --$t9. Citizens beyond Nation --$tEpilogue: "For a Racial Reason" --$tNOTES --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND COLLABORATIONS --$tINDEX 330 $aAround 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the beginning of a family's quest, across five generations and three continents, for lives of dignity and equality. Freedom Papers sets the saga of Rosalie and her descendants against the background of three great antiracist struggles of the nineteenth century: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States. Freed during the Haitian Revolution, Rosalie and her daughter Elisabeth fled to Cuba in 1803. A few years later, Elisabeth departed for New Orleans, where she married a carpenter, Jacques Tinchant. In the 1830's, with tension rising against free persons of color, they left for France. Subsequent generations of Tinchants fought in the Union Army, argued for equal rights at Louisiana's state constitutional convention, and created a transatlantic tobacco network that turned their Creole past into a commercial asset. Yet the fragility of freedom and security became clear when, a century later, Rosalie's great-great-granddaughter Marie-José was arrested by Nazi forces occupying Belgium. Freedom Papers follows the Tinchants as each generation tries to use the power and legitimacy of documents to help secure freedom and respect. The strategies they used to overcome the constraints of slavery, war, and colonialism suggest the contours of the lives of people of color across the Atlantic world during this turbulent epoch. 606 $aCreoles$zAtlantic Ocean Region$xMigrations 606 $aCreoles$zAtlantic Ocean Region$xSocial conditions 606 $aCreoles$zAtlantic Ocean Region$vBiography 606 $aBlack people$zAtlantic Ocean Region$xMigrations 606 $aBlack people$zAtlantic Ocean Region$xSocial conditions 606 $aBlack people$zAtlantic Ocean Region$vBiography 615 0$aCreoles$xMigrations. 615 0$aCreoles$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aCreoles 615 0$aBlack people$xMigrations. 615 0$aBlack people$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aBlack people 676 $a305.896/0163 700 $aScott$b Rebecca J$g(Rebecca Jarvis),$f1950-$01584317 701 $aHe?brard$b Jean M$g(Jean Michel),$f1944-$01286104 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791940203321 996 $aFreedom papers$93868013 997 $aUNINA