Claims to Memory: Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean (Polygons)

217 Pages·2006·2.31 MB·English

by  Catherine A. Reinhardt

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C
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List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Memories of Slavery 1
1. Realms of the Enlightenment 23
2. Realms of the Maroon 59
3. Realms of Freedom 87
4. Realms of Assimilation 107
5. Realms of Memory 127
Conclusion: Beyond Slavery 155
Postscript 158
Appendix 159
Bibliography 177
Index 197
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L I
IST OF LLUSTRATIONS
Figure 1: Welcome sign of the Habitation La Grivelière,
Guadeloupe 159
Figure 2: Restored eighteenth-century house of the
master on La Grivelière 159
Figure 3: Dilapidated eighteenth-century slave huts on
La Grivelière 160
Figure 4: Restored house of the master on the Habitation
Clément,Martinique 160
Figure 5: Ruins of the slave prison in Petit-Canal,
Guadeloupe 161
Figure 6: Slave prison in Petit-Canal 161
Figure 7: “Steps of the slaves” in Petit-Canal 162
Figure 8: Monument to the Unknown Slave built in 1994
in Petit-Canal 162
Figure 9: Windmill in ruins in the Guadeloupean
countryside 163
Figure 10: Crumbling walls of the slave quarters,
Habitation Anse Latouche,Martinique 163
Figure 11: Mémorial de l’Anse Caffard,Martinique 164
Figure 12: Group of statues at the Mémorial de l’Anse
Caffard 164
Figure 13: Statues at the Mémorial de l’Anse Caffard 165
Figure 14: Statues at the Mémorial de l’Anse Caffard 165
Figure 15: Description of a Slave Shipon a panel at the
Mémorial de l’Anse Caffard 166
Figure 16: Scene from Biard’s L’abolition de l’esclavage,
Mémorial de l’Anse Caffard 166