Tag: Jennifer Palmer

  • Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period.

  • What’s in a Name? Mixed-Race Families and Resistance to Racial Codification in Eighteenth-Century France French Historical Studies Volume 33, Number 3 (2010) Pages 357-385 DOI: 10.1215/00161071-2010-002 Jennifer L. Palmer, Collegiate Assistant Professor of History University of Chicago The Saint-Domingue planter Aimé-Benjamin Fleuriau did not simply leave colonialism behind when he returned to his hometown La…

  • Intimacy and the Atlantic World American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-08 14:50 PST (Local Time) Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt) San Diego, California Jennifer L. Palmer, Collegiate Assistant Professor of History University of Chicago In 1755 the merchant Aimé-Benjamin Fleuriau returned to his native city of La Rochelle, a…