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Description of  Escapes from Cayenne: A Story of Socialism and Slavery in an Age of Revolution and Reaction (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700 1900 Ser.)

0820365882 epub In September 1857, Lon Chautard, Charles Bivors, and Hippolyte Paon arrived in Salem, Massachusetts. These refugees from the French Revolution of 1848 were homeless, penniless, friendless, strangers in a strange land, among a people of strange speech, as one of their advocates, the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, later put it. The only thing they had was a story to tellan affecting, yet thrilling story of revolutionary upheaval, forced exile, and hairbreadth escapes over three continents. Following the June Days uprising in Paris, the three French socialists had been transported first to Algeria, then to Cayenne. After years of hard labor, they had escaped the penal colony and made their way to the United States via British Guiana. These experiences brought them into close contact with the colonial frontiers and slave societies of the Americas. In Salem, Chautard soon published an account of their trials under the title Read more