Blue Coat Or Powdered Wig: Free People Of Color In Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue

By the late 1700s, half the free population of Saint Domingue was black and exercised a high degree of social, economic, and physical mobility. Covering the period 1776-1791, this study offers the most comprehensive portrait to date of Saint Domingue s free black elites on the eve of the colony's transformation into the republic of Haiti."

• | Author: Stewart King
• | Publisher: University Of Georgia Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 344 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 0820352136
• | ISBN-13: 9780820352138