Jennifer L. Palmer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jennifer L. Palmer plays a role.
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2024 Chapter 12. Testamentary manumission and emotional bonds in eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond, Dobie, Madeleine, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (eds.), pp. 226–238 | Chapter
Plantation slavery brought whites and people of color into constant intimate contact in a system of intense forcible domination and subordination. This generated powerful emotions on the part of both enslavers and the enslaved. A close reading of one testament from eighteenth-century French… read more