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Sous la domination coloniale française, quatre millions d’esclaves ont vécu ou survécu dans les territoires suivants : Gorée, Grenade, Guadeloupe, Guyane, Ile Bourbon (Réunion), Ile de France (Ile Maurice), Louisiane, Marie-Galante, Martinique, Nouvelle-France, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Christophe, Sainte-Croix, Saint-Domingue, Saint-Louis du Sénégal, Sainte-Lucie, Saint-Martin, les Seychelles, Tobago. Il existe des histoires de la colonisation française, des histoires de chaque colonie ou ensemble régional colonial, des histoires très générales de l’esclavage, mais il n’existe aucune histoire croisée de l’esclavage dans les colonies françaises sur toute la période coloniale. Ce livre est donc une première. Il s’adresse à un public large, désirant apprendre ce qui s’est passé durant les deux siècles de la période esclavagiste de la France, dans un souci de vérité et de clarté. La France et ses esclaves raconte cette histoire, loin du manichéisme habituel, elle décrit les relations complexes, entre Blancs, Noirs, Amérindiens, les métissages et les transformations. Ce livre, qui couvre une période allant des débuts de la colonisation à la seconde abolition de 1848, utilise des documents jusque là méconnus. Il permet de comprendre à tout lecteur ce que fut l’esclavage sous la domination française – un pan mal connu et peu enseigné de notre histoire .
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Sous la domination coloniale française, quatre millions d’esclaves ont vécu ou survécu dans les territoires suivants : Gorée, Grenade, Guadeloupe, Guyane, Ile Bourbon (Réunion), Ile de France (Ile Maurice), Louisiane, Marie-Galante, Martinique, Nouvelle-France, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Christophe, Sainte-Croix, Saint-Domingue, Saint-Louis du Sénégal, Sainte-Lucie, Saint-Martin, les Seychelles, Tobago. Il existe des histoires de la colonisation française, des histoires de chaque colonie ou ensemble régional colonial, des histoires très générales de l’esclavage, mais il n’existe aucune histoire croisée de l’esclavage dans les colonies françaises sur toute la période coloniale. Ce livre est donc une première. Il s’adresse à un public large, désirant apprendre ce qui s’est passé durant les deux siècles de la période esclavagiste de la France, dans un souci de vérité et de clarté. La France et ses esclaves raconte cette histoire, loin du manichéisme habituel, elle décrit les relations complexes, entre Blancs, Noirs, Amérindiens, les métissages et les transformations. Ce livre, qui couvre une période allant des débuts de la colonisation à la seconde abolition de 1848, utilise des documents jusque là méconnus. Il permet de comprendre à tout lecteur ce que fut l’esclavage sous la domination française – un pan mal connu et peu enseigné de notre histoire .
Author: Jeremy D. Popkin Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 135136667X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 437
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A History of Modern France offers a framework to understand modern French history through a survey of the dramatic events that have punctuated its history from the eighteenth century to the present day. Covering events such as the French Revolution, the two World Wars and the more recent election of Emmanuel Macron and the "yellow vest" movement, the book takes a balanced approach to the competing interpretations of modern France inspired by its history. This edition has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the most recent scholarship on topics including French imperial history and the empire’s postcolonial legacy, the history of women and gender, and the French experience of World War I. A new section extends the narrative into mid-2019, and additional emphasis has been given to the role of historical memory in the making of French identity. Taking a chronological approach, the book is approachable for students and provides a clear and understandable picture of the history of modern France. Supported by further reading that has been updated to include the most recent publications, the book is the ideal introduction to the history of modern France for students of this fascinating country.
Author: Sudhir Hazareesingh Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 0374722161 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 327
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Winner of the 2021 Wolfson History Prize “Black Spartacus is a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely to have for a long time . . . An extraordinarily gripping read.” —David A. Bell, The Guardian A new interpretation of the life of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture Among the defining figures of the Age of Revolution, Toussaint Louverture is the most enigmatic. Though the Haitian revolutionary’s image has multiplied across the globe—appearing on banknotes and in bronze, on T-shirts and in film—the only definitive portrait executed in his lifetime has been lost. Well versed in the work of everyone from Machiavelli to Rousseau, he was nonetheless dismissed by Thomas Jefferson as a “cannibal.” A Caribbean acolyte of the European Enlightenment, Toussaint nurtured a class of black Catholic clergymen who became one of the pillars of his rule, while his supporters also believed he communicated with vodou spirits. And for a leader who once summed up his modus operandi with the phrase “Say little but do as much as possible,” he was a prolific and indefatigable correspondent, famous for exhausting the five secretaries he maintained, simultaneously, at the height of his power in the 1790s. Employing groundbreaking archival research and a keen interpretive lens, Sudhir Hazareesingh restores Toussaint to his full complexity in Black Spartacus. At a time when his subject has, variously, been reduced to little more than a one-dimensional icon of liberation or criticized for his personal failings—his white mistresses, his early ownership of slaves, his authoritarianism —Hazareesingh proposes a new conception of Toussaint’s understanding of himself and his role in the Atlantic world of the late eighteenth century. Black Spartacus is a work of both biography and intellectual history, rich with insights into Toussaint’s fundamental hybridity—his ability to unite European, African, and Caribbean traditions in the service of his revolutionary aims. Hazareesingh offers a new and resonant interpretation of Toussaint’s racial politics, showing how he used Enlightenment ideas to argue for the equal dignity of all human beings while simultaneously insisting on his own world-historical importance and the universal pertinence of blackness—a message which chimed particularly powerfully among African Americans. Ultimately, Black Spartacus offers a vigorous argument in favor of “getting back to Toussaint”—a call to take Haiti’s founding father seriously on his own terms, and to honor his role in shaping the postcolonial world to come. Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize | Finalist for the PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Named a best book of the year by the The Economist | Times Literary Supplement | New Statesman
Author: Jutta Wimmler Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004336087 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 243
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In The Sun King’s Atlantic, Jutta Wimmler reveals the many surprising ways in which the Atlantic world channeled cultural developments during the age of the Sun King. Although hardly visible for contemporaries at the time, Africa and America were omnipresent throughout early modern France: in the textile industry, pharmaceutics, medicine, scientific methods, religious discourse, and court theatre. The book moves beyond typical plantation crops and the slave trade to illustrate how a focus on Europe challenges us to rethink the place of Africa in the early modern world.
Author: Frédérique Beauvois Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1785333321 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 294
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Today, a century and a half after the abolition of slavery across most of the Americas, the idea of monetary reparations for former slaves and their descendants continues to be a controversial one. Lost among these debates, however, is the fact that such payments were widespread in the nineteenth century—except the “victims” were not slaves, but the slaveholders deprived of their labor. This landmark comparative study analyzes the debates over compensation within France and Great Britain. It lays out in unprecedented detail the philosophical, legal-political, and economic factors at play, establishing a powerful new model for understanding the aftermath of slavery in the Americas.
Author: Ashley M. Williard Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496225473 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 330
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In seventeenth-century Antilles the violence of dispossession and enslavement was mapped onto men’s and women’s bodies, bolstered by resignified tropes of gender, repurposed concepts of disability, and emerging racial discourses. As colonials and ecclesiastics developed local practices and institutions—particularly family formation and military force—they consolidated old notions into new categories that affected all social groups. In Engendering Islands Ashley M. Williard argues that early Caribbean reconstructions of masculinity and femininity sustained occupation, slavery, and nascent ideas of race. In the face of historical silences, Williard’s close readings of archival and narrative texts reveals the words, images, and perspectives that reflected and produced new ideas of human difference. Juridical, religious, and medical discourses expose the interdependence of multiple conditions—male and female, enslaved and free, Black and white, Indigenous and displaced, normative and disabled—in the islands claimed for the French Crown. In recent years scholars have interrogated key aspects of Atlantic slavery, but none have systematically approached the archive of gender, particularly as it intersects with race and disability, in the seventeenth-century French Caribbean. The constructions of masculinity and femininity embedded in this early colonial context help elucidate attendant notions of otherness and the systems of oppression they sustained. Williard shows the ways gender contributed to and complicated emerging notions of racial difference that justified slavery and colonial domination, thus setting the stage for centuries of French imperialism.
Author: Laurie M. Wood Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300244002 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 287
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An examination of France's Atlantic and Indian Ocean empires through the stories of the little-known people who built it This book is a groundbreaking evaluation of the interwoven trajectories of the people, such as itinerant ship-workers and colonial magistrates, who built France's first empire between 1680 and 1780 in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. These imperial subjects sought political and legal influence via law courts, with strategies that reflected local and regional priorities, particularly regarding slavery, war, and trade. Through court records and legal documents, Wood reveals how courts became liaisons between France and new colonial possessions.
Author: Alan Forrest Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317413873 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 364
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The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History engages with some of the most recent trends in French revolutionary scholarship by considering the Revolution in its global context. Across seventeen chapters an international team of contributors examine the impact of the Revolution not only on its European neighbours but on Latin America, North America and Africa, assess how far events there impacted on the Revolution in France, and suggest something of the Revolution’s enduring legacy in the modern world. The Companion views the French Revolution through a deliberately wide lens. The first section deals with its global repercussions from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and includes a discussion of major insurrections such as those in Haiti and Venezuela. Three chapters then dissect the often complex and entangled relations with other revolutionary movements, in seventeenth-century Britain, the American colonies and Meiji Japan. The focus then switches to international involvement in the events of 1789 and the circulation of ideas, people, goods and capital. In a final section contributors throw light on how the Revolution was and is still remembered across the globe, with chapters on Russia, China and Australasia. An introduction by the editors places the Revolution in its political, historical and historiographical context. The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History is a timely and important contribution to scholarship of the French Revolution.
Author: Frédéric Regent
Author: Frédéric Regent
Author: Jeremy D. Popkin
Author: David Todd
Author: Sudhir Hazareesingh
Author: Jutta Wimmler
Author: Frédérique Beauvois
Author: Ashley M. Williard
Author: Gillian Weiss
Author: Laurie M. Wood
Author: Alan Forrest