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  • 21 - Lumina Sophie, Nineteenth-Century Martinique

  • from Part IV - Enacting Emancipation in the Aftermath of Slavery
  • Edited by Erica L. Ball, Occidental College, Los Angeles, Tatiana Seijas, Rutgers University, New Jersey, Terri L. Snyder, California State University, Fullerton
  • Book:
    As If She Were Free
    Published online:
    24 September 2020
    Print publication:
    08 October 2020, pp 373-392

  • Summary

    In 1870, a literate seamstress, the 19-year-old Lumina Sophie dite Surprise, took part in a short-lived insurrection in southern Martinique. She led a group of female insurrectionists called Pétroleuses who burned down plantations with petrol or gasoline. Subsequently, she was deported to the infamous penitentiary located in French Guyana. In contemporary times, this historical figure famously represents freedom and women’s rights in Martinique. She is remembered by twenty-first century labor activists, feminists, and literary figures and celebrated as the symbol of resistance for the Insurrection of the South.