Author: Lafcadio HearnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
A midsummer trip to the tropics.--Martinique sketches.--Appendix: Some Creole melodies.
Two Years in the French West Indies
Author: Lafcadio HearnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
A midsummer trip to the tropics.--Martinique sketches.--Appendix: Some Creole melodies.
Two Years in the French West Indies
Author: Lafcadio HearnPublisher: Signal Books
ISBN: 9781902669175
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In October 1887 the writer and translator Lafcadio Hearn sailed from New York to Martinique. Intending to stay for a few months, he remained for two years. He viewed French-ruled Martinique as an exotic fusion of European, African and Asian influences, the Creole society par exellence. Describing the island's landscape, its flora and fauna, its colonial architecture and rural villages, he provides a picture of a Caribbean colony where slavery was a recent memory and race an all-importan matter of identity.
Two Years in the French West Indies
Author: Lafcadio HearnPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368352504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
TWO YEARS IN THE FRENCH WEST INDIES,.
Author: LAFCADIO. HEARNPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033773819
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two Years in the French West Indies
Author: L. HearnThe Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804
Author: David EltisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521840686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.
Two Years in the French West Indies (Classic Reprint)
Author: Lafcadio HearnPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332796048
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Excerpt from Two Years in the French West Indies Some of the literary results of that sojourn form the bulk of the present volume. Several, or portions of several, papers have been published in harper's mag azin_e; but the majority of the sketches now appear in print for.the first time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Negro in the French West Indies
Author: Shelby T. McCloyPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081316396X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In the research for his book on the opportunities of the black population in Metropolitan France, Shelby T. McCloy found the treatment accorded to people of color in the French colonies so significantly different as to warrant a separate book. This historical study examines the black experience in the French West Indies -- the islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Santo Domingo -- from the days of slavery and the brutal Code Noir through struggle and revolution to freedom. McCloy provides a detailed account of the black popluation's increasingly important place in the islands from early in the seventeenth century to 1960.
A Colony of Citizens
Author: Laurent DuboisPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807839027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book 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.
Author: Lafcadio Hearn