Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race
Subtitle: The Letters and Diary of Pierre Dessalles, Planter in Martinique, 1808-1856 (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture)
Contributors: Elborg Forster (Editor); Robert Forster (Editor)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 26, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780801851537
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Biography: historical; Biography: political; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Racism & racial discrimination; Slavery & emancipation; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; Dessalles, Pierre,; Caribbean Area - History; History; History - General History; History: World; Caribbean Sea; Europe; Europe - France; Dessalles, Pierre; History / Latin America; 1785-1857; Social life and customs; Caribbean & West Indies - General; Biography; Martinique
First sentence: Martinique experienced the first five years of the French Revolution (1789-94) before the British attacked and occupied the island.