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Sources on the 17th-Century French Caribbean

Sources on the 17th-Century French Caribbean

Du Tertre 1667-1671 II.511-513

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Du Tertre, Jean-Baptiste.  Histoire générale des Antilles habitées par les François.  Vol. 2. Paris: Jolly, 1667-1671. 511-513.

Link to full text: Gallica (v. I-III), Google Books (v. I-IV)

This entry was posted in Enslaved Women, Filles à marier, Mixture and tagged free/d people of African descent, missionaries, morality, mulâtres, sexuality on September 19, 2014 by awilliard.

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Header image cropped from "figuier sauvage" in Jean-Baptiste Labat's Nouveau voyage aux Isles de l'Amérique (1742) IV.361.  Used with permission from the Digital Library of the Caribbean.  Full text available here.
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