A Colony of Citizens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Colony of Citizens write by Laurent Dubois. This book was released on 2012-12-01. A Colony of Citizens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Colonial Citizens
Colonial Citizens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonial Citizens write by Elizabeth Thompson. This book was released on 2000. Colonial Citizens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First, a colonial welfare state emerged by World War II that recognized social rights of citizens to health, education, and labor protection.
American Citizens, British Slaves
American Citizens, British Slaves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Citizens, British Slaves write by Cassandra Pybus. This book was released on 2012-11-26. American Citizens, British Slaves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We hardly had our feet on the soil, when almost the first objects that greeted our vision were gibbets, and men toiling in the most abject misery, looking more degraded even than so many dumb beasts. Such sights, and the supposition that such might be our fate, served to sink the iron still deeper in our souls. This book tells the strange story of almost a hundred United States citizens who were transported to Van Diemen’s Land in 1839–40. As members of the Patriot Army that had conducted border raids into the colony of Upper Canada in 1838, they saw themselves as courageous republican activists, impelled by a moral duty to liberate their northern neighbours from British oppression. Instead of heroic liberators, they became political prisoners of Her Majesty’s government. Sent to Van Diemen’s Land by Lieutenant-Governor Arthur—in the hope of deterring any more Yankees from exporting their abhorrent ideology to the Queen’s domain—the Patriot exiles endured years of harsh treatment before they were eventually pardoned. Not being British subjects, their transportation was almost certainly illegal. Eleven of the Patriots wrote narratives about their time in Van Diemen’s Land. From these interlocking accounts, Cassandra Pybus and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart have constructed a compelling story of the Patriots’ experiences as convicts, drawing also on unpublished letters, newspaper reports and government archives. This vivid and intimate story of political exile and punishment provides a window into the everyday life of the many thousands of forgotten men and women who endured the calculated cruelties of penal transportation. Virtually unknown until brought to life in this remarkable book, the story of the Patriots also considers the political and legal issues of penal transportation as a tool of political repression.
The Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Haitian Revolution write by Toussaint L'Ouverture. This book was released on 2019-11-12. The Haitian Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide demonstrates L’Ouverture’s profound contribution to the struggle for equality.
Avengers of the New World
Avengers of the New World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Avengers of the New World write by Laurent DUBOIS. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Avengers of the New World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Laurent Dubois weaves the stories of slaves, free people of African descent, wealthy whites and French administrators into an unforgettable tale of insurrection, war, heroism and victory.
