Frontiers of servitude : slavery in narratives of the early French Atlantic /
Michael Harrigan.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (xi, 330 pages) : illustrations.
- Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Front matter; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Note on sources; Introduction; Narrative and servitude; Slave economies; The labouring body; Spheres of knowledge; Tensions, order, and the body; Society and slaves; Conclusion; Index.
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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Slavery--History.--Caribbean, French-speaking Slavery--Moral and ethical aspects--Caribbean, French-speaking.