{"id":17728,"date":"2011-11-04T20:46:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T20:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=17728"},"modified":"2016-05-12T00:26:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T00:26:57","slug":"freedom-papers-an-atlantic-odyssey-in-the-age-of-emancipation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=17728","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Harvard University Press<\/a>
\nFebruary 2012
\n288 pages
\n6-1\/8 x 9-1\/4 inches
\n17 halftones, 1 line illustration, 1 map
\nHardcover ISBN 9780674047747<\/p>\n

Rebecca J. Scott<\/a><\/strong>, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law
\nUniversity of Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n

Jean M. H\u00e9brard<\/a><\/strong>, Historian and Visiting Professor
\n\u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris)
\nUniversity of Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n

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Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia<\/a> and sent to Saint-Domingue<\/a> in the Caribbean<\/a>. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the beginning of a family\u2019s quest, across five generations and three continents, for lives of dignity and equality. Freedom Papers<\/em> sets the saga of Rosalie and her descendants against the background of three great antiracist struggles of the nineteenth century: the Haitian Revolution<\/a>, the French Revolution of 1848<\/a>, and the Civil War<\/a> and Reconstruction<\/a> in the United States.<\/p>\n

Freed during the Haitian Revolution, Rosalie and her daughter Elisabeth fled to Cuba<\/a> in 1803. A few years later, Elisabeth departed for New Orleans<\/a>, where she married a carpenter, Jacques Tinchant. In the 1830s, with tension rising against free persons of color, they left for France<\/a>. Subsequent generations of Tinchants fought in the Union Army<\/a>, argued for equal rights at Louisiana\u2019s state constitutional convention, and created a transatlantic tobacco network that turned their Creole<\/a> past into a commercial asset. Yet the fragility of freedom and security became clear when, a century later, Rosalie\u2019s great-great-granddaughter Marie-Jos\u00e9 was arrested by Nazi<\/a> forces occupying Belgium<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Freedom Papers<\/em> follows the Tinchants as each generation tries to use the power and legitimacy of documents to help secure freedom and respect. The strategies they used to overcome the constraints of slavery, war, and colonialism suggest the contours of the lives of people of color across the Atlantic world during this turbulent epoch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation Harvard University Press February 2012 288 pages 6-1\/8 x 9-1\/4 inches 17 halftones, 1 line illustration, 1 map Hardcover ISBN 9780674047747 Rebecca J. Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law University of Michigan Jean M. H\u00e9brard, Historian and Visiting Professor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,28,125,1467,8,17,6462,6940,20,25],"tags":[4424,673,1062,340,8144,8143,8142,8145],"class_list":["post-17728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-europe","category-identitydevelopment","category-law","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-passing-2","category-slavery","category-usa","category-women","tag-belgium","tag-cuba","tag-haiti","tag-harvard-university-press","tag-jean-hebrard","tag-jean-m-hebrard","tag-rebecca-j-scott","tag-rebecca-scott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46152,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17728\/revisions\/46152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}