Blue Coat or Powdered Wig - Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue

Klappentext By the late 1700s! half the free population of Saint Domingue was black. The French Caribbean colony offered a high degree of social! economic! and physical mobility to free people of color. Covering the period 1776-1791! this study offers the most comprehensive portrait to date of Saint Domingues free black elites on the eve of the colony's transformation into the republic of Haiti. Zusammenfassung By the late 1700s! half the free population of Saint Domingue was black and exercised a high degree of social! economic! and physical mobility. Covering the period 1776-1791! this study offers the most comprehensive portrait to date of Saint Domingue's free black elites on the eve of the colony's transformation into the republic of Haiti.

About the author

STEWART R. KING is an associate professor of history at Mount Angel Seminary, St. Benedict, Oregon.

Product details

• Authors: Stewart King, Stewart R King, Stewart R. King
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9780820330297
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3029-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Karibik, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, History - General History