A colony of citizens : revolution & slave emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 /

Dubois, Laurent, 1971-

A colony of citizens : revolution & slave emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 / Revolution and slave emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 Revolution & slave emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 Laurent Dubois. - Chapel Hill [North Carolina] ; London [England] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, (c)2004. - 1 online resource (x, 452 pages) : illustrations, maps - HeinOnline slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law HeinOnline UNC Press law publications .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Insurrection and the language of rights -- A social cartography -- Prophetic rumor -- The insurgent republic -- The arrival of emancipation -- Making slaves citizens -- Worthy of the nation -- War and emancipation -- The mark of freedom -- The revolution's spiral -- The promise of revolution -- The road to Matouba -- Defending the republic -- The new imperial order -- "Vivre libre ou mourir!" -- The exiled republic.




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Enslaved persons--Emancipation--History.--West Indies, French
Slave rebellions--History.--West Indies, French


Electronic Books.

F2151 / .C656 2004