The Negro in the French West Indies

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University Press of Kentucky, 15 juil. 2014 - 288 pages

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.

 

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The Introduction of Slaves
1
The Code Noir
15
Social Life and Crime
35
Service in the Militia and the Maréchaussée
51
Revolution in the Colonies
70
The Expeditions of Leclerc and Richepanse
91
Renewal of Slavery 18021848
118
Freedom at Last 1848
141
Since Emancipation
160
The Development of Education
181
Literary and Scholarly Productions
208
Santo Domingo since Independence
233
Racial Relations
257
Index
273
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Shelby T. McCloy, professor of history at the University of Kentucky, is the author of several books and articles on European history.

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