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There Are No Slaves in France: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime Hardcover - 1996

by Sue Peabody


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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.

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"There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancient Regime examines the paradox of political antislavery and institutional racism in the century prior to the French Revolution. Black slaves who came to France as domestic servants of colonial masters challenged their servitude in courts. On the basis of the Freedom Principle, a judicial maxim granting freedom to any slave who set foot in the kingdom, hundreds of slaves won their freedom. Sue Peabody shows how the political culture of late Bourbon France created ample opportunities for contestation over the meaning of freedom. Men of letters used the metaphor of slavery to critique the supposed despotism of Louis XV and Louis XVI. In the second half of the century, courts and the crown colluded to erect a series of laws prohibiting the entry of blacks into the metropolis. "There Are No Slaves in France" shows how both antislavery and anti-black discourses emerged from the tension between France's reification of liberty and its dependence on colonial slavery.

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  • Title There Are No Slaves in France: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime
  • Author Sue Peabody
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date 1996-10-24
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195101980 / 0195101987
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.62 x 5.84 x 0.88 in (21.89 x 14.83 x 2.24 cm)
  • Reading level 1670
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Library of Congress subjects France - Race relations - History - 18th, Racism - France - History - 18th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95039056
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.896
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