Dr. Rebecca Schloss publishes an article in Early American Studies
Dr. Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss has just published “Furthering Their Family Interests: Women, French Colonial Households, and Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic” in Early American Studies 20:1 (Winter 2022), 113-151.
This article examines how three elite white women furthered their families’ social and economic status around the nineteenth-century Atlantic basin. They and the enslaved and free African- descended servants who accompanied them adapted eighteenth-century strategies for household advancement in response to both the increased constraints on French women’s legal and economic positions in post-Napoleonic France and to different social, legal, and political responses to racialized chattel slavery throughout the French Caribbean. For elite white women, such adaptations included not only more frequent travel around the Atlantic but also extended periods apart from other family members. For the enslaved and free African-descended servants who moved between colonial and metropolitan France, differing social and legal regimes provided opportunities for personal and family advancement, in particular de facto freedom.
The link to the article is here https://eas.pennpress.org/resources/current-issue-abstracts/. Congratulations, Rebecca!