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'There Are No Slaves in France'

The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime

Sue Peabody author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:23rd Jan '97

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Named as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1997 by CHOICE

The repeated efforts by French slaves in France during the seventeenth and eighteenth century to legally seek their freedom left a rich tale of how the demand for freedom paradoxically leads to both the broadening of civil rights and the fostering of racial prejudice. Peabody tells this tale in a lively, informative, and anecdotal narrative.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.

compact study ... This is not an exhaustive investigation of law cases, but an in-depth examination of a few key cases for the purpose of bringing individual contestants and their lawyers into clear focus. * Robert Foster, Social History Vol XXXI No 61 May 1998 *

  • Winner of Named as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1997 by CHOICE.

ISBN: 9780195101980

Dimensions: 148mm x 219mm x 22mm

Weight: 417g

224 pages