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'There Are No Slaves in France': The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime
Peabody, Sue (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Washington State University)
'There Are No Slaves in France': The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime
Peabody, Sue (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Washington State University)
Examines the paradox of political anti-slavery and institutional racism in the century prior to the French Revolution. Through studying the confrontations between the principal of freedom and the fact of slavery, this book examines how French national myths concerning liberty were transformed by the presence of enslaved blacks in the metropolis.
220 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | May 15, 2003 |
ISBN13 | 9780195158663 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 224 |
Dimensions | 142 × 215 × 13 mm · 322 g |
Language | English |