Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… North America Slavery Theatre Women As historical scholarship over the past few decades has shown , sociability played a significant role in eighteenth-century societies in Europe, especially in cities. Paris and London boasted … well as influential intimate ones, such as salons, 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 … Saint-Méry attributed the lacklustre culture of Saint Domingue to the scarcity of white women. He wished that they would play the role that the salonnières did in Paris. But white women in the colony, he noted, tended to avoid high ‘society’ …
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