Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… between whites and free people of colour with the coming of the French Revolution. Places > Trade Practices > Politics & Society Keywords France Marronage North America Slavery Theatre Women As historical scholarship over the past few decades … ‘it still smells a bit of the buccaneer’ (Clay 209). Such statements expressed a narrow, Eurocentric view of what ‘society’ and sociability entailed. If we broaden those categories, we see multiple forms of sociability occurring at all levels of Saint Domingue society. An examination of these forms reveals deep tensions over race, and these tensions would explode in 1791, when …
France | Marronage | North America | Slavery | Theatre | Women
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