… communities contributed to the slave insurrections of 1791, which triggered the Haitian Revolution. Stances in this debate depend on which aspects of the phenomenon the historian chooses to focus on. 6 What is clear, however, is that …
France | Marronage | North America | Slavery | Theatre | Women
… The letters also document that they spoke about their private lives as well as their plans. Being avid readers, they debated literary texts they had enjoyed as well as theatrical performances. Both Berry and Baillie were thus part of a …
Bluestockings | Correspondence | Literature | Travel | Theatre
… as a language that addressed the polite and the vulgar much more efficiently than the language […] of formal political debate’ (Barrell 24). 15 In one such example of a mock playbill from 1784, the subject of lampoon is the Duchess of …