Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique

Sweet Liberty offers a history of Martinique and its relationship to metropolitan France during the final years of slavery in the French empire. It argues that an Atlantic-world approach reveals how race, slavery, class, and gender shaped what it meant to be French on both sides of the ocean.

Author(s): Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2009-07-31
Pages: 320
Categories: History