African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
210 p., From the days of slavery, the Negro from Martinique has never stopped "marronner", that is to say, to try to escape his condition, winning the great woods, the plebeians districts boroughs or even the neighboring islands. Simon, principal figure of the book, was one of them. He knew in the 17th century the arrival of the first slaves from Africa Guinea, the eighteenth hell of sugar plantations in the nineteenth fever abolition, in the early twentieth that of marching strikes and, at the dawn of XXI, the mare desperadoes of false modernity.
Grégoire,Henri (Author), Hermon-Belot,Rita (Editor), and Little,Roger (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Language:
French
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Paris: Harmattan
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
2 vols., Henri Grégoire, often referred to as Abbé Grégoire, was a French Roman Catholic priest, constitutional bishop of Blois and a revolutionary leader. He was an ardent abolitionist.
