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To be free and French : citizenship in France's Atlantic empire / Lorelle Semley (College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts).
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Semley, Lorelle D., 1969- author.
- Series:
- Critical perspectives on empire
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--West Indies, French--Politics and government.
- Black people.
- Black people--Africa, West--Politics and government.
- Political activists--West Indies, French--History.
- Political activists.
- Political activists--Africa, West--History.
- Citizenship--West Indies, French--History.
- Citizenship.
- Citizenship--Africa, West--History.
- Colonies.
- Politics and government.
- History.
- France--Colonies--America--Politics and government.
- France.
- France--Colonies--Africa--Politics and government.
- West Indies, French--Politics and government.
- West Indies, French.
- Africa, West--Politics and government.
- Africa, West.
- West Africa.
- Black people--Politics and government.
- French colonies.
- Africa.
- America.
- Lesser Antilles--West Indies, French.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- Preface: Coincidental Crossings
- Part I: Revolutionary Foundations
- Prologue: Citizens of the World
- To Live and Die, Free and French
- Signares Before Citizens
- Part II: Colonial Constructions
- When Blacks Broke the Chains in the "Little Paris of the Antilles"
- The Trans-African Origins of Porto-Novo
- An "Evolution Revolution" in Paris
- Part III: Planning After Empire
- A More Perfect French Union
- Epilogue: The Art of Citizenship.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107101142
- 110710114X
- 9781107498471
- 1107498473
- 9781107053915
- 1107053919
- OCLC:
- 986814913
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