To be free and French: citizenship in France's Atlantic empire

Preface: Coincidental Crossings

Part I: Revolutionary Foundations

Prologue: Citizens of the World

To Live and Die, Free and French

Signares Before Citizens

Part II: Colonial Constructions

When Blacks Broke the Chains in the "Little Paris of the Antilles"

The Trans-African Origins of Porto-Novo

An "Evolution Revolution" in Paris

Part III: Planning After Empire

A More Perfect French Union

Epilogue: The Art of Citizenship.