Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… enslaved people of Saint Domingue found ways to socialise – some legal, others not. Enslaved people were in some cases authorised by their owners or managers to sell the surplus from their ‘kitchen-gardens’ in nearby towns. Once there, they … place in cemeteries that were abandoned by white people. Participants took a vow of secrecy, and despite the efforts of authorities to repress it, this form of slave sociability was never extinguished (Fick 40-45). Marronage – departure from … of Toussaint Louverture (New York: Picador, Farrar and Giroux, 2020), p. 19-40. The ideology was seen as useful to white authorities seeking to resolve what they took to be ‘problems’: it helped them assuage the growing number of petits …
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