Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017). Amateur performance of plays had long been a pastime in Saint Domingue. It was source of entertainment among family and friends. … By the 1760s, Le Cap boasted a theatre large enough to accommodate 1500 spectators. A decade later, it was staging performances three times a week – a sign of the importance of this institution for the city and surrounding region. By … a Public Voice on a Public Space?’, in Jeffrey M. Leichman and Karine Bénac-Giroux (eds.), Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean (Oxford: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, …
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