Sue Peabody: 2 books

Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World

by Sue Peabody
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005

This groundbreaking collection provides the first comparative history of gender and emancipation in the Atlantic world. Bringing together essays on the United States, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, West Africa and South Africa, and the Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean, it shows that emancipation was...

Madeleine's Children

Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies

by Sue Peabody
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

Madeleine's Children uncovers a multigenerational saga of an enslaved family in India and two islands, Réunion and Mauritius, in the eastern empires of France and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A tale of legal intrigue, it reveals the lives and secret relationships between...