Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation

by Rebecca J. Scott, Jean M. Hebrard, Jean M. Hébrard

Book Overview

Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the beginning of a family's quest, across five generations and three continents, for lives of dignity and equality. Freedom Papers sets the saga of Rosalie and her descendants against the background of three great antiracist struggles of the nineteenth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674416910
• ISBN13: 9780674416918
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.4"