{"id":29426,"date":"2013-03-10T02:28:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T02:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29426"},"modified":"2013-03-10T02:28:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T02:28:13","slug":"sweet-liberty-the-final-days-of-slavery-in-martinique-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29426","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique (Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/fh\/crs158\" target=\"_blank\">Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique (Review)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fh.oxfordjournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">French History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fh.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/27\/1.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 27, Issue 1<\/a> (2013)<br \/>\npages 135-137<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/fh\/crs158\" target=\"_blank\">10.1093\/fh\/crs158<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/history.lafayette.edu\/faculty\/emily-musil-church\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Musil Church<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=584\" target=\"_blank\">Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique<\/a><\/em>. By Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2009. 312 pp. ISBN: 978 0 8122 4172 3.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/history.tamu.edu\/faculty\/schloss.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Hartkopf Scholss\u2019<\/a> investigation of the end of slavery in the French Caribbean island of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martinique\" target=\"_blank\">Martinique<\/a> is a welcome addition to the growing scholarship on the history of the Francophone Black Atlantic world. Schloss\u2019 book builds on existing works by exploring the complex dynamics that existed amidst and between the various racial and economic groups in Martinique, as well as between the metropole and colony. The author\u2019s writing style makes a long, complicated colonial history with a complex cast of characters both engaging and accessible. She uses a wide variety of sources\u2014ranging from court proceedings to diaries to demographic statistics\u2014to reconstruct how Martinique, and the French empire more broadly, defined and redefined racial categories and their meanings. Although she uses class and racial categories to describe the social framework, Schloss is careful to reinforce that the categories she describes\u2014such elite Creoles, poor whites, free mixed-race persons, enslaved Africans, and so on\u2014were fluid designations and not united, cohesive groups. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/fh.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/27\/1\/135.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique (Review) French History Volume 27, Issue 1 (2013) pages 135-137 DOI: 10.1093\/fh\/crs158 Emily Musil Church, Assistant Professor of History Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique. By Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2009. 312 pp. ISBN: 978 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,21,459,8,6940],"tags":[13956,13955,13954,13957,121,13958,13959,13960],"class_list":["post-29426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","tag-emily-church","tag-emily-m-church","tag-emily-musil-church","tag-french-history","tag-martinique","tag-rebecca-h-scholss","tag-rebecca-hartkopf-scholss","tag-rebecca-scholss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29426","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=29426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}