Freedom papers : an Atlantic odyssey in the age of emancipation

Freedom papers : an Atlantic odyssey in the age of emancipation /

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...

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Main Authors: Scott, Rebecca J. (Rebecca Jarvis), 1950- (Author), Hébrard, Jean M. (Jean Michel), 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2012
Subjects:
Tinchant family.
Creoles > Atlantic Ocean Region > Migrations.
Creoles > Atlantic Ocean Region > Social conditions.
Creoles > Atlantic Ocean Region > Biography.
Black people > Atlantic Ocean Region > Migrations.
Black people > Atlantic Ocean Region > Social conditions.
Black people > Atlantic Ocean Region > Biography.
Biography
Biographies.
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