LEADER 03836nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910465730303321 005 20220204230143.0 010 $a0-19-515866-0 010 $a1-280-55876-8 010 $a0-585-32788-2 010 $a0-19-535629-2 035 $a(CKB)2560000000294322 035 $a(EBL)241471 035 $a(OCoLC)45844538 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000258386 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11222445 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000258386 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10257144 035 $a(PQKB)11738367 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000024648 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC241471 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL241471 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10086898 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL55876 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000294322 100 $a19950914d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$a"There are no slaves in France"$b[electronic resource] $ethe political culture of race and slavery in the Ancien Regime /$fSue Peabody 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1996 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-510198-7 311 $a0-19-985444-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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; Ne?gre: An Ambiguous Term; Francisque's Lawyers' Racial Argument; Conclusion 327 $a5. 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. Mende?s France; The Drafting of the Police des Noirs; Conclusion; 8. Erosion of the Police des Noirs; Implementation and Resistance; Identification Cards and Interracial Marriages 327 $aResumption of Petitions for Freedom Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; 330 $aThere 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. 606 $aRacism$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aBlack people$xLegal status, laws, etc$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aPolitical culture$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aFrance$xRace relations$xHistory$y18th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRacism$xHistory 615 0$aBlack people$xLegal status, laws, etc.$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory 676 $a305.896/044/09033 700 $aPeabody$b Sue$0851281 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465730303321 996 $a"There are no slaves in France"$91900660 997 $aUNINA