Madeleine's Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies

ISBN-13: 9780190233884 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 344 str.

Washington State Univers Sue (Professor of History Peabody

Opis

A gripping microhistory/legal case involving two generations of a French family enslaved in the Indian Ocean colonies.

Recenzje

This volume will be of particular interest to those who wish to better understand the work of historians, as well as for those studying the construction of race and indentity in relation to slavery and freedom.

O autorze

Sue Peabody is Professor of History at Washington State University Vancouver and the author of "There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime and co-editor of The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France; Slavery, Freedom and the Law in the Atlantic World; and Le droit des Noirs en France au temps de l'esclavage.