Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation by Jean M. Hébrard, Rebecca J. Scott

Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation

Jean M. Hébrard, Rebecca J. Scott

259 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 generat...

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