Colony of Citizens Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804

Name: Colony of Citizens Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804
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ISBN: 9780807855362

ISBN-10: 0807855367

ISBN-13: 9780807855362

Edition: 2004

Authors: Laurent Dubois

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The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean. Dubois examines this Caribbean revolution by focusing on Guadeloupe, where, in the early 1790s, insurgents on the island fought for equality and freedom and formed alliances with besieged Republicans. In 1794, slavery was abolished throughout the French Empire, ushering in a new colonial order in which all people, regardless of race, were entitled to the same rights. But French administrators on the island combined emancipation with new forms of coercion and racial exclusion, even as…

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List price: $47.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Maps and Illustrations


Abbreviations


Introduction



Prophecy, Revolt, & Emancipation, 1787-1794



Insurrection and the Language of Rights



A Social Cartography



Prophetic Rumor



The Insurgent Republic



The Arrival of Emancipation



The Meaning of Citizenship, 1794-1798



Making Slaves Citizens



Worthy of the Nation



War and Emancipation



The Mark of Freedom



The Revolution's Spiral



The Promise of Revolution



The Boundaries of the Republic, 1798-1804



The Road to Matouba



Defending the Republic



The New Imperial Order



"Vivre libre ou mourir!"



The Exiled Republic


Epilogue


Chronology


Glossary of French Terms


Index