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Title

The abolitions of slavery : from Lʹeger Fʹelcitʹe Sonthonax to Victor Schoelcher, 1793, 1794, 1848 / edited by Marcel Dorigny.

Publication

New York : Berghahn Books, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Dorigny, Marcel

Description

xiii, 370 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The slave route series

Uniform Title

Slave route series

Subjects

• Sonthonax, Léger Félicité, 1763-1813
• History
• Paris (1994)
• Schoelcher, Victor, 1804-1893
• Antislavery movements > France > History
• Antislavery movements > Dominican Republic > Santo Domingo > History
• Antislavery movements > History

Genre/Form

• History
• Paris (1994)
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface / Marcel Dorigny -- A Keynote Conference / Doudou Diene -- Introductory Note: Slavery and Late Serfdom / Jean Bart -- 1. Slavery and Law: Legitimations of an Insurrection / Jacky Dahomay -- 2. Forms of Resistance in Bourbon, 1750-1789 / Prosper Eve -- 3. Resistance to the Slave Trade in African Trading Posts / Harris Memel Fote -- 4. Slave Resistance in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the French Colonies in America, and Chiefly the Windward Islands / Leo Elisabeth -- 5. The Church and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Saint-Domingue / Laennec Hurbon -- 6. British Abolitionism, 1787-1838 / James Walvin -- 7. The Enlightenment and Slavery in North America in the Eighteenth Century / Elise Marienstras -- 8. Is Slavery Reformable? Proposals of Colonial Administrators at the End of the Ancien Regime / Jean Tarrade -- 9. Slavery before the Moral Conscience of the French Enlightenment: Indifference, Unease and Revolt / Jean Ehrard --^
• 10. Mirabeau and the Societe des Amis des Noirs: Which Way to Abolish Slavery? / Marcel Dorigny -- 11. Slavery and French Economists, 1750-1830 / Philippe Steiner -- 12. The Chain of Slave Insurrections in the Caribbean, 1789-1791 / Yves Benot -- 13. The Revolutionary Festivals and the Abolition of Slavery in Year II / Jean-Claude Halpern -- 14. The Role of the Saint-Domingue Deputation in the Abolition of Slavery / Florence Gauthier -- 15. The Constitutionalization of General Freedom under the Directory / Bernard Gainot -- 16. Baco and Burnel's Attempt to Implement Abolition in the Mascarenes in 1796: Analysis of a Failure and Its Consequences / Claude Wanquet -- 17. Port-la-Liberte, Year III: Demographic Approach to New Citizens / Lucien Rene Abenon -- 18. Saint-Domingue: From French Colony to Independent Haiti -- a Numismatic Iconography / Jean-Charles Benzaken -- 19. 30 Floreal Year X: The Restoration of Slavery by Bonaparte / Jean-Marcel Champion --^
• 20. Slavery, Colonial Economy and French Development Choices during the First Industrialization (1802-1840) / Francis Demier -- 21. The Reconstruction of the French Abolitionist Movement under the July Monarchy / Philippe Vigier -- 22. Resistance Movements in the French Colonies: The Bissette Affair (1823-1827) / Eric Mesnard -- 23. Changes in Colonial Ideology in France before 1848: From Slavery to Abolitionism / Francis Arzalier -- 24. From Bug-Jargal to Toussaint Louverture: Romanticism and the Slave Rebel / Gerard Gengembre -- 25. Slavery and the Roots of British Racism / Richard Hart -- 26. Spanish Policy towards the Abolition of Slavery in the Nineteenth Century / Emiliano Gil-Blanco -- 27. Abolition or Destruction of the Slave System? / Oruno D. Lara and Inez Fischer-Blanchet -- 28. The Drafting of the 1848 Decrees: Immediate Application and Long-Term Consequences / Nelly Schmidt -- 29. 22 May 1848: Against 'Tropical Neo-revisionism' / Edouard Delepine --^
• 30. From Definitive Manumissions to the Emancipation of 1848 / M'Baye Gueye -- 31. The Abolition of Slavery in Tunisia: Towards a History of the Black Community / Abdelhamid Largueche -- 32. Two Memories in the Present: Leger Felicite Sonthonax, Victor Schoelcher / Serge Barcellini -- Afterword: On the Abolition of Slavery by the First Republic / Samir Amin -- App. Summary Chronology of Abolitions of the Slave Trade and Slavery / Yves Benot.

ISBN

1571814329 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002043990

OCLC

• 51305851
• SCSB-11841998

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library