Freedom Papers An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation

Name: Freedom Papers An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation
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ISBN: 9780674416918

ISBN-10: 0674416910

ISBN-13: 9780674416918

Edition: 2014

Authors: Rebecca J. Scott, Jean M. Hï¿½brard, Jean M. Hï¿½brard

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Around 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…

Book details

List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Rebecca J. Scott is Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.