[PDF.94pg] Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation

Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation

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 | #792391 in Books |  2012-02-27 |  2012-01-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .97 x6.41 x9.45l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Amazing!|By RDD|The greatest change in the legal documents Rebecca Scott covers in Freedom Papers is their authorship. People in power wrote the earliest documents over the family members, either owners during their enslavement, or authorities during their migration. Beginning with Rosalie, Scott writes, “Reconstructing the life story of a woman considered by law to be wi| |A wonderful, richly detailed history that leads the reader through two centuries in the life of a single family as the individuals within it spend their times on earth, struggling for security and standing. Unusual scholarship, beautifully recounted. (Sidney W

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 century: the Haitia...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation   |  Rebecca J. Scott, Jean M. Hébrard.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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