Frontiers of servitude : slavery in narratives of the early French Atlantic /
Based on little-examined printed and archival sources, this book explores the fundamental ideas behind early French thinking about Atlantic slavery, c. 1620-1750. It analyses the three central questions of what made one a slave, of what was unique about Caribbean labour, and the implications of stra...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press
2018.
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| Series: | Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvnb7p89 |
| Summary: | Based on little-examined printed and archival sources, this book explores the fundamental ideas behind early French thinking about Atlantic slavery, c. 1620-1750. It analyses the three central questions of what made one a slave, of what was unique about Caribbean labour, and the implications of strategic approaches in interacting with slaves. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 330 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526122254 1526122251 9781526122247 1526122243 152612226X 9781526122261 |