A Colony of Citizens
Subtitle: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: September 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780807855362
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Slavery & emancipation; c 1700 to c 1800; Politics / Current Events; General; History: World; Guadeloupe; Slave insurrections; Caribbean & West Indies - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Emancipation; History; Slaves; West Indies, French
First sentence: During the night of Saturday, April 20, 1793, hundreds of enslaved blacks revolted in the area surrounding the village of Trois-Rivieres, Guadeloupe.