Sweet Liberty : The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique -- ONE: "That Your Hearts Will Blossom and Again Become French": The Early Napoleonic Period -- TWO: "Happy to Consider Itself an Ancient British Possession": The British Occupation of Martinique -- THREE: "Your French and Loyal Hearts": The First Decade of the Restoration -- FOUR: "In the Colonies, It Is Impossible That a White Would Align Himself With Slaves": Shifts in Colonial Policy -- FIVE: "To Ensure Equality Before Those Laws to Free Men, Whatever Their Color": Changing Ideas of French Citizenship -- SIX: "Amelioration of the White Race" and "The Sacred Rights of Property": The End of Slavery in the French Atlantic -- CONCLUSION -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- V -- W -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Illustrations.

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.

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