Cover of The Libertine Colony

Book 2005

The Libertine Colony

Publisher
Duke University Press
Language
English
Published
2005
  • Ethnography
  • Libertinism
  • History
  • History - General History
  • World - Colonial Studies
  • Caribbean islands
  • Western Continental Europe
  • Slavery

Summary:Doris Garraway explores the founding discourses of race, hybridity, savagery, and degeneracy in the 17th and 18th century French Caribbean, in particular the way many of these discourses were used to describe French settlers