Download or read book La France et ses esclaves written by Frédéric Regent and published by Grasset. This book was released on 2007-10-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 .
Download or read book La France et ses esclaves written by Frédéric Régent and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pendant plus de deux siècles, quatre millions d'esclaves ont peuplé des terres françaises. Deux millions d'entre eux sont nés en Afrique et ont été transportés par des navires négriers dans les colonies, les deux autres millions y sont nés. Il existe des histoires de la colonisation française, des histoires de chaque colonie, des histoires générales de la traite, mais il n'existait aucune histoire de l'esclavage français, dans l'ensemble des colonies françaises (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion, Guyane, Saint-Domingue...), sur toute la période coloniale.Le livre de Frédéric Régent, grâce au renouvellement de l'historiographie sur le fonctionnement des sociétés esclavagistes françaises, comble un vide et permet de répondre à de nombreuses questions : Pourquoi des Français ont-ils été amenés à devenir des esclavagistes ? Pourquoi ont-ils choisi de recourir à la traite négrière ? Comment les notions de Blancs et de Noirs ont-elles été inventées ? Quel bénéfice la France tire-t-elle de l'économie esclavagiste ? Quelles sont les limites à l'exploitation des esclaves ? Pourquoi la France rétablit-elle l'esclavage après l'avoir aboli ? Quel rôle jouent respectivement les esclaves et les abolitionnistes dans le processus d'émancipation ?Un ouvrage essentiel, au cour d'une nouvelle approche de l'histoire de France.
Download or read book La France et ses esclaves written by Frédéric Régent and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Un grand seigneur et ses esclaves written by Jean-Louis Donnadieu and published by Presses Univ. du Mirail. This book was released on 2009 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La 4e de couv. indique : "En avril 1799, trois ans avant la proclamation de l’indépendance d’Haïti, un vieux noble ruiné écrit à Toussaint Louverture, figure montante de Saint- Domingue. Surprenant renversement des rôles : le comte Louis-Pantaléon de Noé appelle à l’aide un ancien esclave. Maître de la plantation Bréda où naquit Toussaint, grand propriétaire sucrier dont le domaine inspira Victor Hugo pour Bug Jargal, l’aristocrate gascon est représentatif de ces riches planteurs blancs alors malmenés par la tourmente révolutionnaire. À un moment où beaucoup s’interrogent sur le passé colonial de la France, cette biographie invite à plonger au cœur du système esclavagiste et de la « plantocratie » d’Ancien Régime, tout en rappelant les liens solides tissés entre les provinces françaises et les lointaines îles à sucre. Sur les pas du comte de Noé, le lecteur croisera des personnages célèbres (Toussaint Louverture, les frères de Louis XVI) ou moins connus (négociants, notaires et gérants de sucreries). Il découvrira, surtout, les principaux acteurs de la société antillaise : les esclaves noirs, bien évidemment, mais aussi ces « Libres de couleur » qui constituent un groupe social en plein essor à la fin du xviiie siècle."
Download or read book Abolition de l esclavages des N gres dans les Colonies Fran aises written by Colonies (FRANCE) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A History of Modern France written by Jeremy D. Popkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Fealty and Fidelity The Lazarists of Bourbon France 1660 1736 written by Seán Alexander Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The career of the French saint Vincent de Paul has attracted the attention of hundreds of authors since his death in 1660, but the fate of his legacy - entrusted to the body of priests called the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists) - remains vastly neglected. De Paul spent a lifetime working for the reform of the clergy and the evangelization of the rural poor. After his death, his ethos was universally lauded as one of the most important elements in the regeneration of the French church, but what happened to this ethos after he died? This book provides a thorough examination of the major activities of de Paul’s immediate followers. It begins by analysing the unique model of religious life designed by de Paul - a model created in contradistinction to more worldly clerical institutes, above all the Society of Jesus. Before he died, de Paul made very clear that fidelity to this model demanded that his disciples avoid the corridors of power. However, this book follows the subsequent departures from this command to demonstrate that the Congregation became one of the most powerful orders in France. The book includes a study of the termination of the little-known Madagascar mission, which was closed in 1671. This mission, replete with colonial scandal and mismanagement, revealed the terrible pressures on de Paul’s followers in the decade after his demise. The end of the mission occasioned the first major reassessment of the Congregation’s goals as a missionary institute, and involved abandoning some of the goals the founder had nourished. The rest of the book reveals how the Lazarists recovered from the setbacks of Madagascar, famously becoming parish priests of Louis XIV at Versailles in 1672. From then on, fealty to Louis XIV gradually trumped fidelity to de Paul. The book also investigates the darker side of the Congregation’s novel alliance with the monarch, by examining its treatment of Huguenot prisoners at Marseille later in the century, and its involvement with the slave trade in the Indian Ocean. This study is a wide-ranging investigation of the Lazarists’ activities in the French Empire, ultimately concluding that they eclipsed the Society of Jesus. Finally, it contributes new information to the literature on Louis XIV’s prickly relationship with religious agents that will surprise historians working in this area.
Download or read book The Exile s Song written by Sally McKee and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of African American composer Edmond D d , raised in antebellum New Orleans, and his remarkable career in France In 1855, Edmond D d , a free black composer from New Orleans, emigrated to Paris. There he trained with France s best classical musicians and went on to spend thirty-six years in Bordeaux leading the city s most popular orchestras. How did this African American, raised in the biggest slave market in the United States, come to compose ballets for one of the best theaters outside of Paris and gain recognition as one of Bordeaux s most popular orchestra leaders? Beginning with his birth in antebellum New Orleans in 1827 and ending with his death in Paris in 1901, Sally McKee vividly recounts the life of this extraordinary man. From the Crescent City to the City of Light and on to the raucous music halls of Bordeaux, this intimate narrative history brings to life the lost world of exiles and travelers in a rapidly modernizing world that threatened to leave the most vulnerable behind.
Download or read book Free Trade and its Enemies in France 1814 1851 written by David Todd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full examination of the 'protectionist turn' of French liberalism in the early stages of nineteenth-century globalisation.
Download or read book Captives and Corsairs written by Gillian Weiss and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French response to the capture and enslavement of French citizens and subjects by Muslim corsairs in the Mediterranean.
Download or read book Robespierre written by Peter McPhee and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758–94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictator, a fanatic who instigated the murderous Reign of Terror in 1793–94. This masterful biography combines new research into Robespierre's dramatic life with a deep understanding of society and the politics of the French Revolution to arrive at a fresh understanding of the man, his passions, and his tragic shortcomings. Peter McPhee gives special attention to Robespierre's formative years and the development of an iron will in a frail boy conceived outside wedlock and on the margins of polite provincial society. Exploring how these experiences formed the young lawyer who arrived in Versailles in 1789, the author discovers not the cold, obsessive Robespierre of legend, but a man of passion with close but platonic friendships with women. Soon immersed in revolutionary conflict, he suffered increasingly lengthy periods of nervous collapse correlating with moments of political crisis, yet Robespierre was tragically unable to step away from the crushing burdens of leadership. Did his ruthless, uncompromising exercise of power reflect a descent into madness in his final year of life? McPhee reevaluates the ideology and reality of "the Terror," what Robespierre intended, and whether it represented an abandonment or a reversal of his early liberalism and sense of justice.
Download or read book The Imperial Nation written by Josep M. Fradera and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the legacy of monarchical empires shaped Britain, France, Spain, and the United States as they became liberal entities Historians view the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a turning point when imperial monarchies collapsed and modern nations emerged. Treating this pivotal moment as a bridge rather than a break, The Imperial Nation offers a sweeping examination of four of these modern powers—Great Britain, France, Spain, and the United States—and asks how, after the great revolutionary cycle in Europe and America, the history of monarchical empires shaped these new nations. Josep Fradera explores this transition, paying particular attention to the relations between imperial centers and their sovereign territories and the constant and changing distinctions placed between citizens and subjects. Fradera argues that the essential struggle that lasted from the Seven Years’ War to the twentieth century was over the governance of dispersed and varied peoples: each empire tried to ensure domination through subordinate representation or by denying any representation at all. The most common approach echoed Napoleon’s “special laws,” which allowed France to reinstate slavery in its Caribbean possessions. The Spanish and Portuguese constitutions adopted “specialness” in the 1830s; the United States used comparable guidelines to distinguish between states, territories, and Indian reservations; and the British similarly ruled their dominions and colonies. In all these empires, the mix of indigenous peoples, European-origin populations, slaves and indentured workers, immigrants, and unassimilated social groups led to unequal and hierarchical political relations. Fradera considers not only political and constitutional transformations but also their social underpinnings. Presenting a fresh perspective on the ways in which nations descended and evolved from and throughout empires, The Imperial Nation highlights the ramifications of this entangled history for the subjects who lived in its shadows.
Download or read book A Past of Possibilities written by Quentin Deluermoz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of hypothetical turning points in history from Ancient Greece to September 11 What if history, as we know it, had run another course? Touching on alternate histories of the future and the past, or uchronias, A Past of Possibilities encourages deeper consideration of watershed moments in the course of history. Wide-ranging in scope, it examines the Boxer Rebellion in China, the 1848 revolution in France, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, and integrates science fiction, history, historiography, sociology, anthropology, and film. In probing the genre of literature and history that is fascinated with hypotheticals surrounding key points in history, Quentin Deluermoz and Pierre Singaravélou reach beyond a mere reimagining of history, exploring the limits and potentials of the futures past. From the most bizarre fiction to serious scientific hypothesis, they provide a survey of the uses of counterfactual histories, methodological issues on the possible in Social Sciences, and practical proposals for using alternate histories in research and the wider public.
Download or read book Slave No More written by Aline Helg and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Africans across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her sweeping view of resistance and struggle covers more than three centuries, from early colonization to the American and Haitian revolutions, Spanish American independence, and abolition in the British Caribbean. Helg not only underscores the agency of those who managed to become "free people of color" before abolitionism took hold but also assesses in detail the specific strategies they created and utilized. While recognizing the powerful forces supporting slavery, Helg articulates four primary liberation strategies: flight and marronage; manumission by legal document; military service, for men, in exchange for promised emancipation; and revolt—along with a willingness to exploit any weakness in the domination system. Helg looks at such actions at both individual and community levels and in the context of national and international political movements. Bringing together the broad currents of liberal abolitionism with an original analysis of forms of manumission and marronage, Slave No More deepens our understanding of how enslaved men, women, and even children contributed to the slow demise of slavery.
Download or read book Archipelago of Justice written by Laurie M. Wood and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Anatomy of Blackness written by Andrew S. Curran and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2012 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues, natural histories, works of anatomy, pro- and anti-slavery tracts, philosophical treatises, and literary texts, Curran shows how naturalists and philosophes drew from travel literature to discuss the perceived problem of human blackness within the nascent human sciences, describes how a number of now-forgotten anatomists revolutionized the era’s understanding of black Africans, and charts the shift of the slavery debate from the moral, mercantile, and theological realms toward that of the “black body” itself. In tracing this evolution, he shows how blackness changed from a mere descriptor in earlier periods into a thing to be measured, dissected, handled, and often brutalized. Penetrating and comprehensive, The Anatomy of Blackness shows that, far from being a monolithic idea, eighteenth-century Africanist discourse emerged out of a vigorous, varied dialogue that involved missionaries, slavers, colonists, naturalists, anatomists, philosophers, and Africans themselves.
