There are No Slaves in France: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien RégimeOxford University Press, 1996 - 210 pages There Are No Slaves in France examines the paradoxical emergence of political antislavery and institutional racism in the century prior to the French Revolution. Sue Peabody shows how the political culture of late Bourbon France created ample opportunities for contestation over the meaning of freedom. Based on various archival sources, this work will be of interest not only to historians of slavery and France, but to scholars interested in the emergence of modern culture in the Atlantic world. |
Table des matières
Slavery in France The Problem and Early Responses | 11 |
The Case of Jean Boucaux v Verdelin Fashioning the National Myth of Liberty | 23 |
The Impact of the Declaration of 1738 Nantes La Rochelle and Paris | 41 |
Notions of Race in the Eighteenth Century | 57 |
Crisis Blacks in the Capital 1762 | 72 |
Antislavery and Antidespotism 17601771 | 88 |
The Police des Noirs 17761777 | 106 |
Erosion of the Police des Noirs | 121 |
Epilogue | 137 |
Notes | 141 |
Bibliography | 189 |
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