William Jennings is a senior lecturer in French at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and has published widely on Atlantic and Pacific encounters in the French colonial world. Recent works include a study of early slave shipping and a book co-authored with Stefan Pfänder on the origins of a Creole language.

A tour de force of scholarship that gives us a rare portrait of an African slave community in the late seventeenth century.Prof. Trevor Burnard, Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull

• Introduction: Dibia1. Jean Goupy and the Rémire Plantation2. The Enslaved Community of Rémire3. Origins4. Marriages5. Skills and Work6. Daily Life7. Culture8. Freedom9. Health, Punishment and Death10. The Free PopulationConclusion: DibiaAppendix: An English Translation of the InventoryReferencesIndex

William Jennings is a senior lecturer in French at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and has published widely on Atlantic and Pacific encounters in the French colonial world. Recent works include a study of early slave shipping and a book co-authored with Stefan Pfänder on the origins of a Creole language.

A tour de force of scholarship that gives us a rare portrait of an African slave community in the late seventeenth century.Prof. Trevor Burnard, Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull

• Introduction: Dibia1. Jean Goupy and the Rémire Plantation2. The Enslaved Community of Rémire3. Origins4. Marriages5. Skills and Work6. Daily Life7. Culture8. Freedom9. Health, Punishment and Death10. The Free PopulationConclusion: DibiaAppendix: An English Translation of the InventoryReferencesIndex

William Jennings is a senior lecturer in French at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and has published widely on Atlantic and Pacific encounters in the French colonial world. Recent works include a study of early slave shipping and a book co-authored with Stefan Pfänder on the origins of a Creole language.

A tour de force of scholarship that gives us a rare portrait of an African slave community in the late seventeenth century.Prof. Trevor Burnard, Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull

• Introduction: Dibia1. Jean Goupy and the Rémire Plantation2. The Enslaved Community of Rémire3. Origins4. Marriages5. Skills and Work6. Daily Life7. Culture8. Freedom9. Health, Punishment and Death10. The Free PopulationConclusion: DibiaAppendix: An English Translation of the InventoryReferencesIndex