Jean-Jacques et Hippolyte, deux commandeurs meneurs de grève, ou comment sonner l’alarme à la sucrerie des Manquets (Saint-Domingue, 1782)
Studying family papers and plantation estates may be useful to discover new items about the former pro-slavery colonial society in the Americas. For instance, in 1782 on the Manquets sugar estate (in l’Acul, northern Saint-Domingue), a slaves’ strike led by two drivers, Jean-Jacques and Hippolyte, o...
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2013-05-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/6205 |