Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre
Biographic Data
| ID | 9170504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean-Baptiste |
| FAMILY NAME | Du Tertre |
| SIGNATURE | DU TERTRE J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Histoire Generale des Antilles Habitées par les François
J ean-baptiste du tertre (1610–87) was a Dominican missionary. Although he describes the violence and idolatry of the Native Americans (Behn used him for her description of priestly frauds), he also regards their existence as paradisal (I, 357). He movingly documents the miseries of slaves, asserts their common humanity with their owners, and denounces the sexual coercion of women slaves, noting with approval that the French oblige fathers of hal…
Versions of Blackness
Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko (1688) is one of the most widely studied works of seventeenth-century literature, because of its powerful representation of slavery and complex portrayal of ways in which differing races and cultures - European, Black African, and Native American - observe and misinterpret each other. This edition presents a new edition of Oroonoko, with unprecedentedly full and informative commentary, along with complete texts of thre…
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Histoire Generale des Antilles Habitées par les François
J ean-baptiste du tertre (1610–87) was a Dominican missionary. Although he describes the violence and idolatry of the Native Americans (Behn used him for her description of priestly frauds), he also regards their existence as paradisal (I, 357). He movingly documents the miseries of slaves, asserts their common humanity with their owners, and denounces the sexual coercion of women slaves, noting with approval that the French oblige fathers of hal…
Versions of Blackness
Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko (1688) is one of the most widely studied works of seventeenth-century literature, because of its powerful representation of slavery and complex portrayal of ways in which differing races and cultures - European, Black African, and Native American - observe and misinterpret each other. This edition presents a new edition of Oroonoko, with unprecedentedly full and informative commentary, along with complete texts of thre…
Art (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · 17th century (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Aphra (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · British Isles (1 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works) · CONQUEST (1 works)