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Cette uvre (edition relie) fait partie de la serie TREDITION
CLASSICS. La maison d'edition tredition, basee a Hambourg, a publie
dans la serie TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus de
deux millenaires. Ils etaient pour la plupart epuises ou uniquement
disponible chez les bouquinistes. La serie est destinee a preserver
la litterature et a promouvoir la culture. Avec sa serie TREDITION
CLASSICS, tredition a comme but de mettre a disposition des
milliers de classiques de la litterature mondiale dans differentes
langues et de les diffuser dans le monde entier.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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Based on events that began in Saint-Domingue on August 21, 1791,
The Saint-Domingue Plantation; or, The Insurrection vividly
dramatizes the genesis and outbreak of a slave revolt. When a
representative of the French Assembleia (c)e nationale, Monsieur de
Tendale, arrives at the Valombre family plantation to examine the
condition of slaves in Saint-Domingue and to preach their
liberation, he sparks a debate among the local curA (c) and the
Valombres -- Monsieur, Madame, son leia (c)on, and daughter CA
(c)lestine -- who disagree about how slaves should be treated and
whether they should be freed. Meanwhile, rebellion brews on the
plantation. As the slave revolt unfolds, the play's white hero,
leia (c)on, realizes the discrepancy between his liberal political
and philosophical ideas and the reality of his family's economic
interests. The black hero, Timur, confronts the slaves'
bloodthirsty desire to kill the masters, their resistance to his
leadership, and the realization that freedom places heavy demands
on him and the other insurgents.Translated into English by Norman
R. Shapiro for the first time since its publication in 1825, The
Saint-Domingue Plantation addresses a wide range of topics that
antislavery activists raised during Charles de RA (c)musat's time,
including antitorture measures, slaves' access to the sacrament of
marriage, and religious education. An informative introduction by
Doris Y. Kadish places the play in its historic and literary
contexts, inviting further discussion and interpretation of this
important work.
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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