"Every Planter Has Become an Enlightened Politician": Proprietorship, Work, and Citizenship in Colonial Haiti, 1770–1789.
Despite much scholarship on the plantation economy, little attention has been paid to planter political rhetoric in colonial Haiti. By analyzing planter petitions, several lawsuits, and the colonial doléances of 1788–89, this article shows how landed proprietors harnessed natural rights jurisprudenc...
| Publicado en: | French Historical Studies Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 1 - 39 |
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