The Societe des Amis des Noirs and the Abolition of Slavery
1972; Duke University Press; Volume: 7; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/286198
ISSN1527-5493
Autores Tópico(s)Colonialism, slavery, and trade
Resumoto the New World, and along with Britain and Portugal, France had assumed a dominant position among the European slave-trading and slave-owning nations.' Yet, within less than a century every Western nation had declared slavery illegal, and in no part of the New World did this heinous form of human bondage still enjoy the sanctity of law. In the light of this achievement it is no wonder that the abolitionist movement has been so widely explored by historians. From the standpoint of successes, relevance, and inspirational models the Anglo-American leadership deserves its favored place in the historiography of abolition, but a study of the French movement has its own lessons to impart. Despite an important protest literature,2 French cargo vessels in the Age of the Enlightenment carried more than 900,000 Africans to
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