The Life and Legacy of Marie Couvent: Social Networks, Property Ownership, and the Making of a Free People of Color Community in New Orleans.
This dissertation recovers the life of Marie Justine Sirnir Couvent and the Atlantic World she inhabited. Born in Africa around 1757, she was enslaved as a child and shipped to Saint-Domingue through the Bight of Benin in the 1760s. In the tumult of the Haitian Revolution, Couvent fled the island, a...
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W&M ScholarWorks
2015
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539624013 https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3700&context=etd |