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A frail liberty : probationary citizens in the French and Haitian revolutions
- Title
- A frail liberty : probationary citizens in the French and Haitian revolutions / Tessie P. Liu.
- Author
- Liu, Tessie P., 1955-
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
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Details
- Description
- xii, 427 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "By mapping the quandaries of racial equality in Atlantic revolutions, A Frail Liberty contrasts the treatment and status of two colonial populations with African ancestry to document the link between exceptionalism and political inclusion"--
- Series Statement
- France overseas : studies in empire and decolonization
- Subject
- Société des amis des noirs
- 1700-1804
- Antislavery movements > France > History > 18th century
- Black people > France > Social conditions
- Black people > Haiti > Social conditions
- Antislavery movements
- Black people > Social conditions
- French colonies
- Race relations
- France > Race relations > History > 18th century
- France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799
- Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804
- France > Colonies > America
- France > Colonies > Race relations
- America
- France
- Haiti
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-410) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The alchemy of merit -- Sympathy ink : staging humanity in a revolutionary empire -- An ebullient summer : the Amis des Noirs organize to fight the slave trade -- Children of a common father : free people of color as objects of sympathy -- Who belongs as citizens? The antinomies of rights and freedom -- Facing insurrection : free colored rights or emancipation -- "What kind of free is this?" : probationary citizens and the dilemmas of general liberty -- Can the old colonies be saved? "Disfigured slaves" and the new abolitionism -- The hermeneutics of freedom and violence : justifying slavery after emancipation -- Conclusion : the allure and tragedy of meritorious belonging -- Epilogue : forgotten promises of representative democracy.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-1454
- ISBN
- 9781496227294
- 1496227298
- LCCN
- 2022003335
- OCLC
- 1263743940
- Author
- Liu, Tessie P., 1955- author.
- Title
- A frail liberty : probationary citizens in the French and Haitian revolutions / Tessie P. Liu.
- Publisher
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- France overseas : studies in empire and decolonization
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-410) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1804
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-1454