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Tag: Saint-Domingue
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Race, Reproduction and Family Romance in Moreau de Saint-Mery’s Description. ..de la partie francaise de l’isle Saint Domingue Eighteenth-Century Studies Volume 38, Number 2, Winter 2005 pages 227-246 DOI: 10.1353/ecs.2005.0008 Doris Lorraine Garraway, Associate Professor of French Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois This paper analyzes the colonial jurist and historian Moreau de Saint-Méry’s racial classification system…
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The French colonial question and the disintegration of white supremacy in the Colony of Saint Domingue, 1789-1792 The University of North Carolina, Wilmington 2005 94 pages Molly M. Herrmann A Thesis Submitted to the University of North Carolina Wilmington in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts This thesis argues…
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New Christians/’New Whites’: Sephardic Jews, Free People of Color, and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue, 1760-1789 Chapter (pages 314-332) in: The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800 Berghahn Books 2001 592 pages Pb ISBN 978-1-57181-430-2; Hb ISBN 978-1-57181-153-0 Edited by: Paolo Bernardini and Norman Fiering Chapter Author: John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor…
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Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour’s “The Mulatto” Southern Spaces An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the American South and their global connections 2007-08-28 Ed Piacentino, Professor of English High Point University, High Point, North Carolina This essay examines Victor Séjour’s “The Mulatto” (1837), a short story acknowledged as the…
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Redeeming the “Character of the Creoles”: Whiteness, Gender and Creolization in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue Journal of Historical Sociology Volume 23, Issue 1 (March 2010) pages 40–72 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2009.01359.x Yvonne Fabella, Lecturer of History University of Pennsylvania This article examines the political significance of white creolization in pre-revolutionary French Saint Domingue. Eighteenth-century Europeans tended to view…