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A Caribbean enlightenment : intellectual life in the British and French colonial worlds, 1750-1792 / April G. Shelford
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Edited by Cambridge University Press - 2025
Explores the intersection of Enlightenment ideas and colonial realities amongst White, male colonists in the eighteenth-century French and British Caribbean. For them, becoming 'enlightened' meant diversion, status seeking, satisfying curiosity about the tropical environment, and making sense of the brutal societies and the enslaved Africans
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