New Orleans between Atlantic and Caribbean
Reinterpreting the Saint-Domingue Migration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23428470 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathalie Dessens (0000-0002-6749-045X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 153-172 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781009370578.007 |
| OpenAlex | W4396785012 |
| ISBN | 9781009370578 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
The Atlantic was, for centuries, crisscrossed by continuous fluxes of people moving either by choice or under pressure. These mobilities forged a complex web of relationships not only between the two shores of the Atlantic but also within the American space. Using a voluminous correspondence between two Saint-Domingue refugees, Jean Boze, a resident of New Orleans from 1809 until his death in 1842, and Henri de Sainte-Gême, who lived in New Orleans between 1809 and his relocation to France in 1818, this chapter examines the role played by the Saint-Domingue refugees in repositioning the city within the Atlantic and Greater Caribbean. It contends that by studying a group of people who migrated under pressure (the refugees from the Haitian Revolution), we can develop conceptual frameworks (in this case, the Greater Caribbean) and spur fertile historical reinterpretations (of, in the present case, New Orleans’s position in the Americas).
Archaeology · Art history · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Mobilities · Refugee · Relocation · SAINT · Shore · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Geology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Oceanography
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |