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To Be Free and French - Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire (Paperback)
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To Be Free and French - Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire (Paperback)
Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire
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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
color 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 labor in the colonization of Africa.
They defined an alternative French citizenship, which recognized
difference, particularly race, as part of a 'universal' French
identity. Spanning Atlantic port cities in Haiti, Senegal,
Martinique, Benin, and France, this book is a major contribution to
scholarship on citizenship, race, empire, and gender, and it sheds
new light on debates around human rights and immigration in
contemporary France.
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