'There Are No Slaves in France' Sue Peabody (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Washington State University)

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'There Are No Slaves in France' by Sue Peabody (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Washington State University)

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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.

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'There Are No Slaves in France': The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime by Sue Peabody (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Washington State University)

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.

'There Are No Slaves in France' Reviews

...a superb scholarly investigation of the so-called 'Freedom Principle'....Strongly based on archival research, this well-written study deserves wide readership.-Choice
...grounded firmly in archival research and a comprehensive survey of secondary material.-History
The book is a good example of the wealth of information that can be gleaned from an examination of legal cases. Peabody's scholarly monograph is a welcome addition to what is still a narrow shelf of books and articles about race and slavery in eighteenth-century France.-Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Peabody has produced a solid piece of legal and social history....this is an impressively researched, exhaustively documented book, a model of how to exploit archival and legal primary sources. It should prove to be the definitive study of the slavery question in mainland France prior to the French Revolution.-American Historical Review

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9780195158663

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0195158660

Title

'There Are No Slaves in France': The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime by Sue Peabody (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Washington State University)

Author

Sue Peabody (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Washington State University)

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New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Year published

2003-05-15

Number of pages

220

Prizes

Winner of Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1997 by Choice.

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