Freedom papers : an Atlantic odyssey in the age of emancipation / Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hébrard.
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...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2012.
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