"There are no slaves in France" [[electronic resource] ] : the political culture of race and slavery in the Ancien Regime / / Sue Peabody

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465730303321
• Autore: Peabody Sue
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1996
• ISBN: 0-19-515866-0; 1-280-55876-8; 0-585-32788-2; 0-19-535629-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.896/044/09033
• Soggetti: Racism - France - History - 18th century; Black people - Legal status, laws, etc - France - History - 18th century; Political culture - France - History - 18th century; Electronic books.; France Race relations History 18th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; 1. Slavery in France: The Problem and Early Responses; The French Courts and the Edict of 1716; Conclusion; 2. The Case of Jean Boucaux v. Verdelin: Fashioning the National Myth of Liberty; Jean Boucaux v. Bernard Verdelin; The Declaration of 1738; Conclusion; 3. The Impact of the Declaration of 1738: Nantes, La Rochelle, and Paris; The Case of Catherine Morgan; La Rochelle and Paris; Conclusion; 4. Notions of Race in the Eighteenth Century; Francisque of Pondicherry; Nègre: An Ambiguous Term; Francisque's Lawyers' Racial Argument; Conclusion; 5. Crisis: Blacks in the Capital, 1762 The Admiralty Ordinance of April 5, 1762; The Registers of 1762; Follow-up to the Ordinance of 1762; Conclusion; 6. Antislavery and Antidespotism: 1760-1771; Lawsuits before the Admiralty Court of France; Secular Critiques of Despotic Monarchy; Roc v. Poupet, 1770; Lawyers and Their Motives; Conclusion; 7. The Police des Noirs, 1776-1777; Pampy and Julienne v. Mendès France; The Drafting of the Police des Noirs; Conclusion; 8. Erosion of ; the Police des Noirs; Implementation and Resistance; Identification Cards and Interracial Marriages; Resumption of Petitions for Freedom Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.