Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… to visit friends or family, evade work or punishments, or extend holiday festivities. These maroons sometimes created networks of underground trade, exchanging foods and goods stolen from one plantation or town for those of others. 5 When … 1750-1790’, in Douglas Catterall and Jodi Campbell (eds.), Women in Port: gendering communities, economies, and social networks in the Atlantic port cities, 1500-1800 (Leiden: Brill, 2012), p. 257-297. The paucity of white women in … various forms of sociability in Saint Domingue – from the plantation and mountain maroon communities, to the business networks of free people of colour, to the theatre houses of Cap français and Port-au-Prince – reveal the depth of racial …
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