{"product_id":"escapes-from-cayenne-a-story-of-socialism-and-slavery-in-an-age-of-revolution-and-reaction-paperback","title":"Escapes from Cayenne: A Story of Socialism and Slavery in an Age of Revolution and Reaction - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichaël Roy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLéon Chautard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichaël Roy\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn September 1857, Léon 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 tell--an affecting, yet thrilling story of revolutionary upheaval, forced exile, and hairbreadth escapes over three continents. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing 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 \u003ci\u003eEscapes from Cayenne\u003c\/i\u003e (1857). His pamphlet, which has long sunk into oblivion, deserves rediscovery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEscapes from Cayenne \u003c\/i\u003esheds light on the ideological connections between the European \"spirit of 1848\" and U.S. radical abolitionism and reveals the scope of cosmopolitan solidarities available to fugitives of different national and racial origins in the mid-nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Written in English by a Frenchman, and reminiscent of literary traditions such as the slave narrative and the picaresque novel, it is a tale of adventure as well as a passionate \u003ci\u003ecri de coeur\u003c\/i\u003efor universal justice.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLéon Chautard (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e LÉON CHAUTARD (1812-1890) was a French socialist and abolitionist. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichaël Roy (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e MICHAËL ROY is an associate professor of American studies at Université Paris Nanterre and a fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eFugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of \u003ci\u003eFrederick Douglass in Context\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 148\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47580182675709,"sku":"9780820364803","price":49.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/NSbh3svUUT9780820364803.webp?v=1779831076","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/escapes-from-cayenne-a-story-of-socialism-and-slavery-in-an-age-of-revolution-and-reaction-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}