Madeleine''s Children - Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France''s Indian Ocean Colonies

A gripping microhistory/legal case involving two generations of a French family enslaved in the Indian Ocean colonies.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Introduction


• 1. Madeleine: A Child Slave in Pre-Colonial India


• 2. Crossings: Oceans, Islands, and Free Soil


• 3. Madeleine's Children: Family Secrets


• 4. The Revolution: Emancipation without Freedom


• 5. The Limits of Law: Madeleine's Betrayal


• 6. A Perfect Storm


• 7. Incendiary Arguments, Justice Suspended


• 8. English Liberties


• 9. Freedom Papers Hidden in His Shoe


• 10. Damages and Interest


• Afterword


• Appendices


• Notes


• Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Sue Peabody is Meyer Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and History at Washington State University Vancouver. She is the author of "There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime (OUP, 1996) and the co-editor of The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France and Slavery, Freedom and the Law in the Atlantic World.

Zusammenfassung

A gripping microhistory/legal case involving two generations of a French family enslaved in the Indian Ocean colonies.

Zusatztext

'Madeleine's Children' is a detailed exposition of the lives of slaves in the Indian Ocean world in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. Based on years of meticulous research, it brings vividly to life the tensions between slave-owners and slaves during a tumultuous period of shifting legal challenges to, and definitions of, slavery. Thoroughly recommended to scholars of the Indian Ocean world and of slavery.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sue Peabody, Sue (Meyer Distinguished Professor of Lib Peabody, Peabody Sue
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 17.10.2022
• EAN: 9780197563618
• ISBN: 978-0-19-756361-8
• Seiten: 344
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Recht > Internationales Recht, Ausländisches Recht; France, European History, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Europe / France, LAW / Constitutional, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, General & world history, Legal History, Asian History, General and world history, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Slavery and abolition of slavery, Constitution, Constitutional & administrative law, HISTORY / Asia / South / General