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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795999103321

Autore

Peabody Sue <1960-.>

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1996

ISBN

0-19-535629-2

1-280-55876-8

0-585-32788-2

0-19-515866-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 210 pages) : illustrations

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

France Race relations History 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; 1. Slavery in France: The Problem and Early Responses; 2. The Case of Jean Boucaux v. Verdelin: Fashioning the National Myth of Liberty; 3. The Impact of the Declaration of 1738: Nantes, La Rochelle, and Paris; 4. Notions of Race in the Eighteenth Century; 5. Crisis: Blacks in the Capital, 1762; 6. Antislavery and Antidespotism: 1760-1771; 7. The Police des Noirs, 1776-1777; 8. Erosion of the Police des Noirs; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index