The Abolitions of Slavery: From Lʹeger Fʹelcitʹe Sonthonax to Victor Schoelcher, 1793, 1794, 1848Marcel Dorigny "This work has been worth the wait . . . All of the articles are of excellent quality, many are clear enough to stand alone for graduate students, and all are thought-provoking either in themselves or as suggestions of new questions that need to be addressed within the French colonies or in the broader comparative literature."?- Itinerario These papers are intended to demonstrate the complexity of the historical processes leading up to the abolition of slavery in 1793-1794, and again in 1848, given that Bonaparte had restored the former colonial regime in 1802. Those processes include the slave insurrections and the many forms of resistance to slavery and servile work, the philosophical and political debates of the Enlightenment, the attitude of the Church, the action of anti-slavery associations and the role of revolutionary assemblies, not forgetting the importance of the economic interests that provided the backcloth to philosophical discussions in the matter. The close interweaving of the colonial spheres of the majority of European powers inexorably raised slavery to an international plane: from then on anti-slavery too became a cosmopolitan movement, and these present studies strive to take account of this important innovation at the end of the eighteenth century. This work, written in tribute to Léger Félicité Sonthonex, who was responsible for the first abolition in Santo Domingo in 1793, and to Victor Schoelcher, principal architect of the abolition of 1848, is intended to link two highly symbolic dates in the tragic history of the "first colonization" 1793 marks the beginning of the age of abolitions, yet it was not until half a century later that France, now republican once more, renewed links with the heritage of the Enlightenment and of Year II. |
Contents
Resistance to the Slave Trade in African Trading Posts | 40 |
The Church and Slavery in EighteenthCentury SaintDomingue | 55 |
Was There a Demand for Abolition in Western Thought | 69 |
The Enlightenment and Slavery in North America | 79 |
Is Slavery Reformable? Proposals of Colonial Administrators | 101 |
Slavery before the Moral Conscience of the French | 111 |
Slavery and French Economists 17501830 | 133 |
Insurrections in | 145 |
The Restoration of Slavery and the Reconstruction of | 227 |
Slavery Colonial Economy and French Development Choices | 237 |
The Reconstruction of the French Abolitionist Movement | 248 |
The Bissette | 255 |
Romanticism | 272 |
Preamble by Oruno D Lara and Nelly Schmidt | 283 |
Spanish Policy towards the Abolition of Slavery in | 291 |
Immediate Application | 305 |
The Revolutionary Festivals and the Abolition of Slavery | 155 |
The Role of the SaintDomingue Deputation in | 167 |
The Constitutionalization of General Freedom under | 180 |
Baco and Burnels Attempt to Implement Abolition in | 197 |
Demographic Approach to New Citizens | 207 |
From French Colony to Independent Haiti | 217 |
Édouard Delépine | 314 |
Towards a History of | 330 |
Léger Félicité Sonthonax | 340 |
On the Abolition of Slavery by the First Republic | 353 |
Summary Chronology of Abolitions of the Slave Trade | 359 |
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References to this book
Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion [Two Volumes] ABC-CLIO, LLC,Harcourt Education No preview available - 2006 |