Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9781107053915
Subjects: Ethics, ancient
Description: "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.