To be free and French : citizenship in France's Atlantic empire / Lorelle Semley (College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts).

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

xxi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

"The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and 'Frenchness' for themselves, but Lorelle Semley reveals that this event was just one moment in a longer struggle of women and men of colour for rights under the French colonial regime. Through political activism ranging from armed struggle to literary expression, these colonial subjects challenged and exploited promises in French republican rhetoric that should have contradicted the continued use of slavery in the Americas and the introduction of exploitative labour in the colonisation of Africa"--Provided by publisher.

English

October 20, 2017

Includes bibliographical references and index.