To be free and French: citizenship in France's Atlantic empire

"The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and 'Frenchness' for themselves, but Lorelle Semley reveals that this event was just one moment in a longer struggle of women and men of colour for rights unde...

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1. Verfasser: Semley, Lorelle D. 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2017
Schriftenreihe:Critical perspectives on empire
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Zusammenfassung:"The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and 'Frenchness' for themselves, but Lorelle Semley reveals that this event was just one moment in a longer struggle of women and men of colour for rights under the French colonial regime. Through political activism ranging from armed struggle to literary expression, these colonial subjects challenged and exploited promises in French republican rhetoric that should have contradicted the continued use of slavery in the Americas and the introduction of exploitative labour in the colonisation of Africa"...Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xxi, 362 Seiten Illustrationen, 8 Karten, Portraits
ISBN:9781107498471
9781107101142

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