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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of North Carolina Pr
Publication date
March 1, 2004
Pages
456
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780807855362
ISBN-10
0807855367
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9 in.
Weight
1.45 lbs.
Original list price
$39.95
Other format details
university press
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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution | Slave Revolution in the Caribbean 1789-1804 | The Black Jacobins | Silencing the Past | Freedom's Mirror | Avengers Of The New World | Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean. Dubois examines this Caribbean revolution by focusing on Guadeloupe, where, in the early 1790s, insurgents on the island fought for equality and freedom and formed alliances with besieged Republicans. In 1794, slavery was abolished throughout the French Empire, ushering in a new colonial order in which all people, regardless of race, were entitled to the same rights.
But French administrators on the island combined emancipation with new forms of coercion and racial exclusion, even as newly freed slaves struggled for a fuller freedom. In 1802, the experiment in emancipation was reversed and slavery was brutally reestablished, though rebels in Saint-Domingue avoided the same fate by defeating the French and creating an independent Haiti.
The political culture of republicanism, Dubois argues, was transformed through this transcultural and transatlantic struggle for liberty and citizenship. The slaves-turned-citizens of the French Caribbean expanded the political possibilities of the Enlightenment by giving new and radical content to the idea of universal rights.
But French administrators on the island combined emancipation with new forms of coercion and racial exclusion, even as newly freed slaves struggled for a fuller freedom. In 1802, the experiment in emancipation was reversed and slavery was brutally reestablished, though rebels in Saint-Domingue avoided the same fate by defeating the French and creating an independent Haiti.
The political culture of republicanism, Dubois argues, was transformed through this transcultural and transatlantic struggle for liberty and citizenship. The slaves-turned-citizens of the French Caribbean expanded the political possibilities of the Enlightenment by giving new and radical content to the idea of universal rights.
Editions
Hardcover
from Univ of North Carolina Pr (March 1, 2004)
9780807828748 | details & prices | 456 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 1.88 lbs | List price $65.00
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
from Univ of North Carolina Pr (March 1, 2004)
9780807855362 | details & prices | 456 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.45 lbs | List price $39.95
About: The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean.
About: The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean.
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