Negro in the French West Indies
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 island
1 online resource (289 pages)
9780813163963, 081316396X
1042089916
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; One: The Introduction of Slaves; Two: The Code Noir; Three: Social Life and Crime; Four: Service in the Militia and the Maréchaussée; Five: Revolution in the Colonies; Six: The Expeditions of Leclerc and Richepanse; Seven: Renewal of Slavery, 1802-1848; Eight: Freedom at Last, 1848; Nine: Since Emancipation; Ten: The Development of Education; Eleven: Literary and Scholarly Productions; Twelve: Santo Domingo since Independence; Thirteen: Racial Relations; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z