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Tag: Saint-Domingue
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This article focuses on the experiences of women of African descent who were made captives (and, in some cases, recaptives) after the 1683 buccaneer raid on Veracruz,
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Developing a genealogy of racial prejudice in Saint-Domingue, [Julien] Raimond began with a study of the colony’s history. He noted that, in the early 18th century, during the first generations of the colony’s existence, almost all the white settlers who travelled to the colony had been men. They had married African women. They – and…
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An 18th-century creole slaveholder invented the idea of ‘racial prejudice’ to defend diversity among a slave-owning elite
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Exploring the geographies, genealogies, and concepts of race and gender of the African diaspora produced by the Atlantic slave trade
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Making Men: Enlightenment Ideas of Racial Engineering The American Historical Review Volume 115, Issue 5 (December 2010) pages 1364-1394 DOI: 10.1086/ahr.115.5.1364 William Max Nelson, Assistant Professor of History University of Toronto A minor nobleman from Alsace, traveling in French colonial Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) on the eve of the French and Haitian revolutions, expressed surprise that…
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The mixing of races in Saint Domingue occasioned a plethora of commentaries, mostly venomous and polemical, on the causes and consequences of the colony’s multiracial order. The most famous of these commentaries, though not the most polemical, was by Moreau de Saint-Méry, the colonial jurist and historian whose writings on Saint-Domingue are still a major…
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Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue University of Georgia Press March 2001 344 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3029-7 Stewart R. King, Associate Professor of History Mount Angel Seminary, St. Benedict, Oregon By the late 1700s, half the free population of Saint Domingue was black. The French…
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Science of desire: Race and representations of the Haitian revolution in the Atlantic world, 1790-1865 University of Notre Dame July 2008 489 pages Publication Number: AAT 3436234 ISBN: 9781124353197 Marlene Leydy Daut, Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of…
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Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue Palgrave Macmillan June 2006 408 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7140-1, ISBN10: 1-4039-7140-4 Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-230-10837-0, ISBN10: 0-230-10837-7 John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Arlington Winner of the Society for French Historical Studies 2007 Gilbert Chinard Prize!…
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Inventing the Creole Citizen: Race, Sexuality and the Colonial Order in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue Stony Brook University December 2008 335 pages Yvonne Eileen Fabella A Dissertation Presented The Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History Inventing the Creole Citizen examines the battle over racial hierarchy…