Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… 1790 (London: T. Cadell nd W. Davies, 1797). Résumé This entry discusses the various forms of public sociability in pre-revolutionary Saint Domingue and how they became increasingly racialised. Despite European ideas about the unifying … 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 > Trade Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés France Marronage North America Slavery Theatre … where ideas, taste and politics were shaped. But did sociability also play a historically significant role in the remote French colony of Saint Domingue, on the other side of the Atlantic? It might be thought that this slave colony had little …
France | Marronage | North America | Slavery | Theatre | Women
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