Escape from Vichy - The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean
Early in World War II, thousands of refugees traveled from France to Vichy-controlled Martinique, en route to safer shores in North, Central, and South America. While awaiting transfer, the exiles formed influential ties-with one another and with local black dissidents. As Eric T. Jennings shows, what began as expulsion became a kind of rescue.
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