03836nam 2200673Ia 450 991046573030332120220204230143.00-19-515866-01-280-55876-80-585-32788-20-19-535629-2(CKB)2560000000294322(EBL)241471(OCoLC)45844538(SSID)ssj0000258386(PQKBManifestationID)11222445(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000258386(PQKBWorkID)10257144(PQKB)11738367(StDuBDS)EDZ0000024648(MiAaPQ)EBC241471(Au-PeEL)EBL241471(CaPaEBR)ebr10086898(CaONFJC)MIL55876(EXLCZ)99256000000029432219950914d1996 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccr"There are no slaves in France"[electronic resource] the political culture of race and slavery in the Ancien Regime /Sue PeabodyNew York Oxford University Press19961 online resource (221 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-510198-7 0-19-985444-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; Conclusion5. 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 MarriagesResumption of Petitions for Freedom Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index;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.RacismFranceHistory18th centuryBlack peopleLegal status, laws, etcFranceHistory18th centuryPolitical cultureFranceHistory18th centuryFranceRace relationsHistory18th centuryElectronic books.RacismHistoryBlack peopleLegal status, laws, etc.HistoryPolitical cultureHistory305.896/044/09033Peabody Sue851281MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465730303321"There are no slaves in France"1900660UNINA