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Blue coat or powdered wig : free people of color in pre-revolutionary Saint Domingue / Stewart R. King.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Stewart R., 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free Black people--Haiti.
- Free Black people.
- Haiti--History--To 1791.
- Haiti.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (355 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By the late 1700s, half the free population of Saint Domingue was black and exercised a high degree of social, economic, and physical mobility. Covering the period 1776-1791, this study offers the most comprehensive portrait to date of Saint Domingue's free black elites on the eve of the colony's transformation into the republic of Haiti.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The colony and its people
- pt. 2. The free colored in society and the economy
- pt. 3. Group strategies for economic and social advancement.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780820342351
- 0820342351
- OCLC:
- 753976380
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