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"There are no slaves in France" : the political culture of race and slavery in the Ancien Regime
- Author / Creator
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- Online
Details
- Creator
- Sue Peabody
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (x, 210 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9780195356298, 0195356292, 9781280558764, 1280558768, 9780585327884, 0585327882, 9780195158663, 0195158660
- OCLC
- ocm45844538
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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