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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: French Perspectives -- French Caribbean Slaves Forge Their Own Ideal of Liberty in 1789 -- Voices Lost? Staël and Slavery, 1786-1830 -- Transmitting the Sense of Property Reporting on a Slave Massacre in 1847 -- Part Two: American Perspectives -- Haitian Contributions to American History A Journalistic Record -- The Tricolor in Black and White The French Revolution in Gabriel's Virginia -- Greedy French Masters and Color-Conscious, Legal-Minded Spaniards in Colonial Louisiana -- Francophone Residents of Antebellum Baltimore and the Origins of the Oblate Sisters of Providence -- Part Three: Caribbean Perspectives -- Creole, the Language of Slavery -- From the Problematic Maroon to a Woman-Centered Creole Project in the Literature of the French West Indies -- Exorcising Painful Memories Raphaël Confiant and Patrick Chamoiseau -- Part Four: Legacies -- From the Plantation to the Penitentiary Chain, Classification, and Codes of Deterrence -- Maryse Condé and Slavery -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index