HIST 339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gens De Couleur

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), and professor is giving us context for that. 500,000 slaves; 50,000 gens de couleur; 32,000 french colonists at the end of the 18th century. Why this is important to us: when napoleon loses control of haiti, he loses interest in holding. The united states" fugitive slave act of 1793 as an example of an harsher slave law that was passed in the wake of the revolution; seen as a tacit national approval of slavery. Louisiana purchase of 1803 doubles the size of the united states; resulting expansion of cash crops (as well as of slavery) out west. An idea of southern white womanhood as very gentile, scarlett o"hara-like womanhood; the article brings our attention to the majority of white women in the south, who were poor. A significant group of students were interested in the motivation of the elite white women who were helping the destitute. Was the elite women"s treatment of destitute women out of the ordinary.

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