Madeleine's Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies - Paperback
by Sue Peabody
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197563618ISBN-10:197563619UPC:9780197563618Book Category:Law, HistoryBook Subcategory:Constitutional, Asia, Legal HistoryBook Topic:SouthSize:9.50 x 6.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCZM3NYFS5
Madeleine's Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies
Madeleine's Children uncovers a multigenerational saga of an enslaved family in India and two islands, Réunion and Mauritius, in the eastern empires of France and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A tale of legal intrigue, it reveals the lives and secret relationships between slaves and free people that have remained obscure for two centuries. As a child, Madeleine was...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197563618ISBN-10:197563619UPC:9780197563618Book Category:Law, HistoryBook Subcategory:Constitutional, Asia, Legal HistoryBook Topic:SouthSize:9.50 x 6.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCZM3NYFS5
Sue Peabody is Meyer Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and History at Washington State University Vancouver. She is the author of "There Are No Slaves in France" The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime (OUP, 1996) and the co-editor of The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France and Slavery, Freedom and the Law in the Atlantic World.
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