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Description and Holding Information
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Fresneau, Theresa at San Domingo, 1889
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Theresa at San Domingo; A tale of the Negro Insurrection of 1791: by Madame A. (Armand) Fresneau, translated from the French by Emma Geiger Magrath;
With illustrations, (3)+10-213p, Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1889. (A TOC is provided on the second of the initial 3 unnumbered pages. Lacks index.
The Black Revolution in Haiti remained for a century an endless source of fascination for outsiders; in particular countries like the U.S., France, and
England, which still maintained slavery at home of in their colonies. A copious literature exploited the real and embellished horrors of the
St.-Domingue catastrophe, fueling the fears of Americans and colonial Europeans that it might repeat on their soil. The present work of fiction, of which even
the author and translator may be fabricated, was published by McClurg, a firm specializing in books of an uplifting nature for “young readers.”
Although one detects some “racism lite,” this story provides an exemplary counterpoint to the usual viciously racist theme of the genre. Its underlying
moral is that, while those shadowy slaves who revolted were very bad indeed, things might never have come to such a pass had the French planters treated
their “charges” with a bit of kindness. As evidence it was those Negroes whom little Theresa treated kindly who saved our heroine and her family from
the general conflagration.)
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Title:
Theresa at San Domingo : a tale of the Negro insurrection of 1791 / by Madame A. Fresneau ; translated from the French by Emma Geiger Magrath ; with illustrations.
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Available Volumes
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| Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
| Volume 1 | | Yes | No |
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