The abolitions of slavery : from Léger Félcité Sonthonax to Victor Schoelcher, 1793, 1794, 1848 /

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Imprint:	New York : Berghahn Books ; Paris : UNESCO Pub., 2003.
Description:	xiii, 370 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The slave route series Slave route series.
Subject:	Sonthonax, Léger Félicité, -- 1763-1813. Schoelcher, Victor, -- 1804-1893. Schoelcher, Victor, -- 1804-1893 Sonthonax, Léger Félicité, -- 1763-1813 Antislavery movements -- History. Antislavery movements -- Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo -- History. Antislavery movements -- France -- History. Antislavery movements. Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo. France. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5035474

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Other authors / contributors:	Dorigny, Marcel.
ISBN:	1571814329 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Introductory Note - Slavery and Late Serfdom
Chapter 2. Resistances to Slavery in the Different Colonial Spheres (1750-1791)
Chapter 3. Was There a Demand for Abolition in Western Thought in the Eighteenth Century?
Chapter 4. The Revolution and the First Abolition: Insurrections in the Islands, Debates in the Revolutionary Assemblies, Abolitions (1789-1802)
Chapter 5. The Restoration of Slavery and the Reconstruction of the Abolitionist Movements (1802-1848)
Chapter 6. 1848: The Suppression of Slavery: Debates and Modalities of Implementation
Chapter 7. Afterword - On the Abolition of Slavery by the First Republic
Appendix: Summary Chronology of abolitions of the Slave Trade and Slavery
Bibliography
Index

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