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Author Reinhardt, Catherine A., 1968-

Title Claims to memory : beyond slavery and emancipation in the French Caribbean / Catherine A. Reinhardt.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 202 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Series Polygons ; v. 10
Polygons ; v. 10.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-196) and index.
Contents Memories of slavery -- Realms of the Enlightenment -- Realms of the maroon -- Realsm of freedom -- Realms of assimilation -- Realms of memory -- Beyond slavery.
Summary "Why do the people of the French Caribbean still continue to be haunted by the memory of their slave past more than one hundred and fifty years after the abolition of slavery? What process led to the divorce of their collective memory of slavery and emancipation from France's portrayal of these historical phenomena? How are Martinicans and Guadeloupeans today transforming the silences of the past into historical and cultural manifestations rooted in the Caribbean? This book answers these questions by relating the 1998 controversy surrounding the 150th anniversary of France's abolition of slavery to the period of the slave regime spanning the late Enligtenment and the French Revolution. By comparing a diversity of documents - including letters by slaves, free people of color, and planters, as well as writings by the philosophes, royal decrees, and court cases - the author untangles the complex forces of the slave regime that have shaped collective memory. The current nationalization of the memory of slavery in France has turned these once peripheral claims into passionate political and cultural debates."--Jacket.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL
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Subject West Indies, French -- History -- 18th century.
Slavery -- West Indies, French -- Historiography.
Slavery.
Historiography.
Philosophy, French -- 18th century.
Philosophy, French.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Maroons -- West Indies, French.
Maroons.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- West Indies, French.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- British colonies.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- French colonies.
Black people -- Cultural assimilation -- West Indies, French.
Black people -- Cultural assimilation.
Memory -- Social aspects -- West Indies, French.
Memory -- Social aspects.
Memory.
Myth -- Social aspects -- West Indies, French.
Myth.
Social aspects.
Identity (Psychology) -- West Indies, French.
Identity (Psychology)
West Indies, French -- Race relations.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1700-1800
1700-1799
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Reinhardt, Catherine A., 1968- Claims to memory. New York : Berghahn Books, 2006 (DLC) 2005053638 (OCoLC)61456749
ISBN 9781782382065 (electronic book)
1782382062 (electronic book)
1845450795 (alkaline paper)
9781845450793 (alkaline paper)
9781845454128 (paperback)
184545412X (paperback)