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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Bibliografski detalji
Glavni autor: Harrigan, Michael (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Manchester : Manchester University Press 2018.
Serija:Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies.
Online pristup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvnb7p89
Sadržaj:
  • Narrative and servitude
  • Slave economies
  • The labouring body
  • Spheres of knowledge
  • Tensions, order, and the body
  • Society and slaves.