The Abolitions of Slavery - Marcel Dorigny
From Leger Felicite Sonthonax to Victor Schoelcher, 1793, 1794, 1848 (Slave Route Series)
KORTE INHOUD
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 responsi...
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2003, Paperback, goed exemplaar [Auteur: Marcel Dorigny] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Berghahn Books, Incorporated] [Jaar: 2003] [Titel: The Abolitions of Slavery / From the L. F. Sonthonax to Victor Schoelcher, 1793, 1794, 1848]
