Encyclopédie noire : the making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's intellectual world /

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Author / Creator:Johnson, Sara E. (Sara Elizabeth), author.
Imprint:Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
©2023
Description:xi, 376 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language:English
French
Haitian
Kongo
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13337031
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Varying Form of Title:Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's intellectual world
ISBN:9781469676913
1469676915
9781469676920
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Text in English with extensive quotations in French, with translation into English. Also with quotations in Kreyòl, Kikongo, Spanish, Italian, and other languages, with translations into English.
Summary:"If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, sooner or later Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry is bound to appear. As a lawyer, philosophe, and Enlightenment polymath, Moreau created and compiled an immense archive that remains a vital window into the fragile social, political, and intellectual fault lines of the Age of Revolutions. But the gilded spines and elegant designs that decorate his archive obscure the truth: Moreau's achievements were, at every turn, predicated upon the work of enslaved and free people of color. Their labor amassed the wealth that afforded him the leisure to research, think, and write. Their rich intellectual and linguistic cultures filled the pages of his most applauded works. They set the type, dried the paper, and folded the pages that created his legacy. Every beautiful book Moreau designed contains an embedded story of hidden violence. Sara Johnson's arresting investigation of race and knowledge in the revolutionary Atlantic surrounds Moreau with the African-descended people he worked so hard to erase, immersing him in a vibrant community of language innovators, forgers of kinship networks, and world travelers who strove to create their own social and political lives. Built from archival fragments, creative speculation, and audacious intellectual courage, Encyclopédie noire is a communal biography of the women and men who made Moreau's world"--
Other form:Online version: Johnson, Sara E. (Sara Elizabeth). Encyclopédie noire. Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2023] 9798890862044

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