Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… years 1788, 1789, and 1790 (London: T. Cadell nd W. Davies, 1797). Abstract This entry discusses the various forms of public sociability in pre-revolutionary Saint Domingue and how they became increasingly racialised. Despite European … in marriages and business; and the theatre. The entry shows how racialisation shaped the development of Saint-Domingue’s public sphere, setting up a clash between whites and free people of colour with the coming of the French Revolution. Places > …
France | Marronage | North America | Slavery | Theatre | Women
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