Freedom Papers : An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation / Rebecca J. Scott, Jean M Hébrard.
Scott, Rebecca J., author.; Hébrard, Jean M, author.
2012
E29.C73 S36 2012eb
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Title Freedom Papers : An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation / Rebecca J. Scott, Jean M Hébrard.
Author Scott, Rebecca J., author.
ISBN 9780674065161
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674065161
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 17 halftones, 1 line illustration, 1 map
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674065161 doi
Call Number E29.C73 S36 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.896/0163
Summary Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the beginning of a family's quest, across five generations and three continents, for lives of dignity and equality. Freedom Papers sets the saga of Rosalie and her descendants against the background of three great antiracist struggles of the nineteenth century: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States. Freed during the Haitian Revolution, Rosalie and her daughter Elisabeth fled to Cuba in 1803. A few years later, Elisabeth departed for New Orleans, where she married a carpenter, Jacques Tinchant. In the 1830s, with tension rising against free persons of color, they left for France. Subsequent generations of Tinchants fought in the Union Army, argued for equal rights at Louisiana's state constitutional convention, and created a transatlantic tobacco network that turned their Creole past into a commercial asset. Yet the fragility of freedom and security became clear when, a century later, Rosalie's great-great-granddaughter Marie-José was arrested by Nazi forces occupying Belgium.Freedom Papers 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.
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Maps
Prologue: The Cigar Maker Writes to the General
1. "Rosalie, Black Woman of the Poulard Nation"
2 "Rosalie ... My Slave"
3. Citizen Rosalie
4. Crossing the Gulf
5. The Land of the Rights of Man
6. Joseph and His Brothers
7. "The Term Public Rights Should Be Made to Mean Something"
8. Horizons of Commerce
9. Citizens beyond Nation
Epilogue: "For a Racial Reason"
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND COLLABORATIONS
INDEX

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