Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… 1788, 1789, and 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 tendency of sociability, divisions existed along social, racial and gender lines. Forms of sociability discussed include dance and voodoo on plantations; the culture of maronnage; the mediating role of free women …
France | Marronage | North America | Slavery | Theatre | Women
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