Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Preface: The Fear of “French Negroes” xv
6. Introduction: Mobile Culture, Mobilized Politics 1
7. 1. Canine Warfare in the Circum-Caribbean 21
8. 2. “Une et indivisible?” The Struggle for Freedom in Hispaniola 49
9. 3. “Negroes of the Most Desperate Character”: Privateering and Slavery in the Gulf of Mexico 91
10. 4. French Set Girls and Transcolonial Performance 122
11. 5. “Sentinels on the Watch-Tower of Freedom”: The Black Press of the 1830s and 1840s 157
12. Epilogue 189
13. Notes 195
14. Works Consulted and Discography 245
15. Index 277