The fear of French negroes : transcolonial collaboration in the revolutionary Americas /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, Sara E. (Sara Elizabeth)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2012]
Series:Flashpoints (Berkeley, Calif.) ; 12.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Mobile Culture, Mobilized Politics
  • 1. Canine Warfare in the Circum-Caribbean; Cuban Bloodhounds and Transcolonial Terror Networks; A Discursive Battle of Wills; Culture and Public Memory
  • 2. "Une et indivisible?" The Struggle for Freedom in Hispaniola; "L'île d'Haiti forme le territoire de la République": The Early Years of Antislavery Border Politics; The Meaning of Freedom; Haitian Generals: Ogou Iconography on Both Sides of the Border; Guangua pangnol pi fort pasé ouanga Haitien
  • 3. "Negroes of the Most Desperate Character": Privateering and Slavery in the Gulf of Mexico Race, Privateering, and the Gulf South in the 1810s; To Fight Ably and Valiantly against One's Own Race; The Cultural Afterlives of Impossible Patriots
  • 4. French Set Girls and Transcolonial Performance; The French Set Girls; Reconsidering the Migration of "French" Cultural Capital; Embodied Wisdom and Attunement; Circum-Caribbean Repercussions of Saint-Domingue; Legacies
  • 5. "Sentinels on the Watch-Tower of Freedom": The Black Press of the 1830s and 1840s. Periodical Campaigns: Promoting an African Diasporic Literacy Project Class, Migration, and Transcolonial Labor Relations; Caribbean Federation: Advancing National Interests through a Regionalist Lens
  • Epilogue.