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

by Sue Peabody

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195101987
• ISBN13: 9780195101980
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"