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Sweet liberty : the final days of slavery in Martinique
- Title
- Sweet liberty : the final days of slavery in Martinique / Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss.
- Author
- Schloss, Rebecca Hartkopf, 1970-
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2009], ©2009.
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- Description
- vi, 300 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Early American studies
- Uniform Title
- Early American studies.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Sweet liberty : the final days of slavery in Martinique -- "That your hearts will blossom and again become French" : the early Napoleonic period -- "Happy to consider itself an ancient British possession" : the British occupation of Martinique -- "Your French and loyal hearts" : the first decade of the restoration -- "In the colonies, it is impossible that a white would align himself with slaves" : shifts in colonial policy -- "To ensure equality before those laws to free men, whatever their color" : changing ideas of French citizenship -- "Amelioration of the white race" and "the sacred rights of property" : the end of slavery in the French Atlantic.
- ISBN
- 9780812241723 (alk. paper)
- 081224172X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008051923
- OCLC
- ocn278980800
- 278980800
- SCSB-5485293
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries