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University of California Press
- The Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
The Fear of French Negroes is an interdisciplinary study that explores how people of African descent responded to the collapse and reconsolidation of colonial life in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1845). Using visual culture, popular music and dance, periodical literature, historical memoirs, and state papers, Sara E. Johnson examines the migration of people, ideas, and practices across imperial boundaries. Building on previous scholarship on black internationalism, she traces expressions of both aesthetic and experiential transcolonial black politics across the Caribbean world, including Hispaniola, Louisiana and the Gulf South, Jamaica, and Cuba. Johnson examines the lives and work of figures as diverse as armed black soldiers and privateers, female performers, and newspaper editors to argue for the existence of "competing inter-Americanisms" as she uncovers the struggle for unity amidst the realities of class, territorial, and linguistic diversity. These stories move beyond a consideration of the well-documented anxiety insurgent blacks occasioned in slaveholding systems to refocus attention on the wide variety of strategic alliances they generated in their quests for freedom, equality and profit.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- Preface: The Fear of “French Negroes”
- pp. xv-xxii
- Works Consulted and Discography
- pp. 245-276
- Production Notes
- p. 290
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520953789
Related ISBN(s)
9780520271128
MARC Record
OCLC
801363598
Pages
312
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No