Assistant Professor Rebecca Hartkopf SCHLOSS teaches courses in Atlantic World History, Modern France, and the Caribbean. Her first project, Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique, (forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press, Early American Series, July 2009), focuses on the relationship between Martinique and continental France and the construction of racial, class, gender and national identities during the first half of the nineteenth century. Her second project, France at the Edges: Life in France’s Atlantic Port Cities, 1760-1830, explores the commercial, personal, and political connections between New Orleans, LA, Saint Pierre, Martinique, Cayenne, French Guiana, Saint Louis/Gorée, Senegal, and Bordeaux, France during the so-called Age of Empire.