Cover; Intimate Bonds; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction. Interracial Intimacy in the French Atlantic ; Chapter 1. Proximity and Distance in Plantation Society ; Chapter 2. Legitimating Authority ; Chapter 3. Navigating Transatlantic Separations
Chapter 4. Economies of Race and Gender ; Chapter 5. What's in a Name? ; Chapter 6. Negotiating Patriarchy ; Epilogue. Race from Colonialism to Revolution ; Notes ; Index ; Acknowledgments
Summary
Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds shows how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period
