Sue Peabody
Biographic Data
| ID | 335087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sue Peabody |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sue |
| FAMILY NAME | Peabody |
| SIGNATURE | PEABODY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University Vancouver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bissette and the Police des Noirs: Free Soil, Mobility, and the Status of the Patroné in the Early Nineteenth Century
In the early years of the July Monarchy, the antislavery activist of color Charles Auguste Bissette petitioned the Ministry of the Navy and Colonies on behalf of Hippolyte Roux, a former slave, to reclaim a security deposit left in the Martinique Treasury a decade earlier, prior to Roux's arrival in Paris. Roux's journey to freedom, and Bissette's advocacy for him, allow us to see how French policy evolved towards slaves and free people of color …
La France, un « libre sol »
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana by Alejandro De la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross
Négresse, Mulâtresse, Citoyenne: Gender and Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650–1848
Lorelle Semley, To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France’s Atlantic Empire
Lorelle Semley’s To Be Free and French is a fresh, surprising, and de-centering approach to questions of citizenship in France’s colonial spaces and the metropole, from the late eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries. Semley, a historian of Africa by training, has coined the term “trans-African” to describe the themes that tie this work together. By “trans-African,” she invokes overlapping networks of people, products, and ideas, as well a…
Poursuivre en justice pour s’affranchir: Une forme de résistance ? L’exemple de l’esclave Furcy
La décision d’un esclave de revendiquer sa liberté en justice est certes un acte de résistance contre l’esclavage, mais ce n’est pas nécessairement un acte antiesclavagiste. Au moyen de la micro histoire, cet article fait état des différences entre la compréhension personnelle d’un esclave de sa condition injuste et les arguments avancés par ses avocats pour obtenir sa liberté. La lutte individuelle de l’esclave Furcy n’a pas contribué de manière…
The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World, by Terry Rey
English Liberties
After a year, Lory ordered Furcy removed from the Isle Bourbon prison and sent him to his sister-in-law’s plantation in British Mauritius. Joseph Lory helped to finance the illegal Indian Ocean slave trade; the captain and supercargo of the Succès , a ship Lory and his business partner financed, were prosecuted twice for smuggling African slaves, but Lory escaped prosecution. Furcy passed the years trying to get out from Lory’s control by sending…
Afterword
Furcy’s fate after achieving legal recognition of his freedom was difficult to pinpoint, but his life has been reclaimed as a symbol to the people of Réunion who seek justice and equality today. Several plays, an award-winning novel by Mohammed Aïssaoui, and a popular song by Kaf Malbar all celebrate Furcy’s resistance to slavery. Yet the true meaning of Furcy’s struggle for freedom is more ambiguous; he certainly fought long and hard for his own…
The Limits of Law
The Napoleonic Code, as interpreted in the Mascarene Islands, hampered manumission and severely restricted the rights of free people of color. The slave trade was abolished precisely as the islands invested in sugar production, creating more onerous conditions for slaves. Mauritius fell under British rule. When her mistress died in 1808, Madeleine learned that the estate owed her nineteen years’ wages, a sum that should have allowed her to purcha…
Madeleine's Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies
Madeleine's Children' is a gripping microhistory/legal case involving two generations of a French family enslaved in the Indian Ocean colonies
Les enfants de Madeleine, esclaves à l'île Bourbon (xviiie-xixe siècle)
En utilisant des exemples tirés d’une famille esclave de la Réunion et de l’île Maurice, cet article analyse comment le choix des prénoms ainsi que des noms de famille a marqué le statut de ses membres et a signalé ou bien dissimulé leurs relations de parenté. Selon le droit colonial français, les pères esclaves ne disposaient pas du statut de pères, mais les noms des esclaves et de leurs descendants conservaient les traces de leur ascendance mat…
Haitian History: New Perspectives, edited by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Freedom Papers Hidden in His Shoe: Navigating Emancipation across Imperial Boundaries
A microhistorical inquiry into the life of Furcy, a man held in slavery in the French Indian Ocean colony of Île Bourbon (today Réunion), sheds light on shifting French policies and practices regarding race and slavery from the Old Regime to the general emancipation of 1848. The mobility of two enslaved domestic servants, Furcy and his mother Madeleine, who traveled between Bengal, Île Bourbon, Mauritius, and continental France, challenged French…
Slavery, Freedom, and the Law in the Atlantic World, 1420–1807
To trace the development of slavery and its legal manifestations over the early modern period is to tap some of the larger transformations of the Atlantic world as a whole. In the fifteenth century, slaves constituted a small but recognizable segment of most African, European, and American societies. Some societies with strong imperial traditions (Roman, Islamic, Itza, and Aztec) contained many references to slaves in their commercial, marital, i…
An Alternative Genealogy of the Origins of French Free Soil: Medieval Toulouse
Since the fifteenth century, French lawyers and magistrates have upheld the principle that ‘no one is a slave in France’ [nul n'est esclave en France], extending freedom to many slaves who set foot on French soil. This article examines the medieval antecedents for France's Freedom Principle, arguing that Louis X's oft-cited 1315 ordinance did not free all slaves in France and was not the primary source of the French free soil tradition. Rather, m…
Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World
Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World, edited by Rosemary Brana-Shute and Randy J. Sparks, Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 2009, viii + 398 pp., $59.95, ISBN 978-1-57003
Free Soil: The Generation and Circulation of an Atlantic Legal Principle
Colonisations
Arlette Gautier, Les Sœurs de Solitude: Femmes et esclavage aux Antilles du xviie au
1L'ouvrage d'Arlette Gautier, Les Soeurs de Solitude, publié en 1985 et aujourd'hui réédité, reste l'étude de référence sur la vie des femmes esclaves africaines dans les Antilles françaises.Sa recherche, associant une solide maîtrise de la démographie à l'histoire culturelle des pratiques sexuées en France, en Afrique et aux Antilles a résisté à l'épreuve du temps.Introduite par une préface d'Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau, la nouvelle édition est a…
France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent
La question raciale et le 'sol libre de France: L'affaire Furcy
À partir d'un cas singulier duXIXesiècle, cet article examine la loi française au regard du principe du sol libre français et de la loi raciale. Un homme de l'Île Bourbon, Furcy, cherche à faire établir qu'il est un homme libre, face aux prétentions de son prétendu maître, Joseph Lory, dans une affaire qui dure de 1817 à 1843. Ses avocats et les procureurs fondent sa demande sur le fait que sa mère était indienne et non pas noire et sur son séjou…
Taking Haiti to the people: History and fiction of the Haitian revolution
LAURENT DUBOIS Cambridge and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2004 viii + 357 pp., ISBN 0-674-01304-2 MADISON SMARTT BELL New York: Pantheon Books. 2004. 747 pp, ISBN 0-375-42
Négresse, Mulâtresse, Citoyenne: Gender and Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650°C1848
Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
A Dangerous Zeal”: Catholic Missions to Slaves in the French Antilles, 1635-1800
Research Article| February 01 2002 “A Dangerous Zeal”: Catholic Missions to Slaves in the French Antilles, 1635-1800 Sue Peabody Sue Peabody Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2002) 25 (1): 53–90. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-25-1-53 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sue Peabody; “A Dangerous Zeal”: Catholic Missions to Slaves in…
Free Soil: The Generation and Circulation of an Atlantic Legal Principle
Madeleine's Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies
Madeleine's Children' is a gripping microhistory/legal case involving two generations of a French family enslaved in the Indian Ocean colonies
Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
A Nation Born to Slavery: Missionaries and Racial Discourse in Seventeenth-Century French Antilles
Journal Article "A Nation Born to Slavery": Missionaries and Racial Discourse in Seventeenth-Century French Antilles Get access Sue Peabody Sue Peabody Department of History, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA 98686 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Fall 2004, Pages 113–126, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2004.0099 Published: 01 October 2004
Les esclaves de la Republique: L'histoire oubliee de la premiere emancipation 1789-1794
An Alternative Genealogy of the Origins of French Free Soil: Medieval Toulouse
Since the fifteenth century, French lawyers and magistrates have upheld the principle that ‘no one is a slave in France’ [nul n'est esclave en France], extending freedom to many slaves who set foot on French soil. This article examines the medieval antecedents for France's Freedom Principle, arguing that Louis X's oft-cited 1315 ordinance did not free all slaves in France and was not the primary source of the French free soil tradition. Rather, m…
La question raciale et le 'sol libre de France: L'affaire Furcy
À partir d'un cas singulier duXIXesiècle, cet article examine la loi française au regard du principe du sol libre français et de la loi raciale. Un homme de l'Île Bourbon, Furcy, cherche à faire établir qu'il est un homme libre, face aux prétentions de son prétendu maître, Joseph Lory, dans une affaire qui dure de 1817 à 1843. Ses avocats et les procureurs fondent sa demande sur le fait que sa mère était indienne et non pas noire et sur son séjou…
Taking Haiti to the people: History and fiction of the Haitian revolution
LAURENT DUBOIS Cambridge and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2004 viii + 357 pp., ISBN 0-674-01304-2 MADISON SMARTT BELL New York: Pantheon Books. 2004. 747 pp, ISBN 0-375-42
Race, Slavery, and the Law in Early Modern France
(1994). Race, Slavery, and the Law in Early Modern France. The Historian: Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 501-510
Race, gender, and rank: Early modern ideas of humanity
Les esclaves de la Republique: L'histoire oubliee de la premiere emancipation 1789-1794
A Dangerous Zeal”: Catholic Missions to Slaves in the French Antilles, 1635-1800
Research Article| February 01 2002 “A Dangerous Zeal”: Catholic Missions to Slaves in the French Antilles, 1635-1800 Sue Peabody Sue Peabody Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2002) 25 (1): 53–90. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-25-1-53 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sue Peabody; “A Dangerous Zeal”: Catholic Missions to Slaves in…
The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France
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Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France
A Nation Born to Slavery: Missionaries and Racial Discourse in Seventeenth-Century French Antilles
Journal Article "A Nation Born to Slavery": Missionaries and Racial Discourse in Seventeenth-Century French Antilles Get access Sue Peabody Sue Peabody Department of History, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA 98686 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Fall 2004, Pages 113–126, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2004.0099 Published: 01 October 2004
Négresse, Mulâtresse, Citoyenne: Gender and Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650°C1848
Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
Taking Haiti to the people: History and fiction of the Haitian revolution
LAURENT DUBOIS Cambridge and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2004 viii + 357 pp., ISBN 0-674-01304-2 MADISON SMARTT BELL New York: Pantheon Books. 2004. 747 pp, ISBN 0-375-42
France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent
La question raciale et le 'sol libre de France: L'affaire Furcy
À partir d'un cas singulier duXIXesiècle, cet article examine la loi française au regard du principe du sol libre français et de la loi raciale. Un homme de l'Île Bourbon, Furcy, cherche à faire établir qu'il est un homme libre, face aux prétentions de son prétendu maître, Joseph Lory, dans une affaire qui dure de 1817 à 1843. Ses avocats et les procureurs fondent sa demande sur le fait que sa mère était indienne et non pas noire et sur son séjou…
Slavery, Freedom, and the Law in the Atlantic World, 1420–1807
To trace the development of slavery and its legal manifestations over the early modern period is to tap some of the larger transformations of the Atlantic world as a whole. In the fifteenth century, slaves constituted a small but recognizable segment of most African, European, and American societies. Some societies with strong imperial traditions (Roman, Islamic, Itza, and Aztec) contained many references to slaves in their commercial, marital, i…
An Alternative Genealogy of the Origins of French Free Soil: Medieval Toulouse
Since the fifteenth century, French lawyers and magistrates have upheld the principle that ‘no one is a slave in France’ [nul n'est esclave en France], extending freedom to many slaves who set foot on French soil. This article examines the medieval antecedents for France's Freedom Principle, arguing that Louis X's oft-cited 1315 ordinance did not free all slaves in France and was not the primary source of the French free soil tradition. Rather, m…
Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World
Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World, edited by Rosemary Brana-Shute and Randy J. Sparks, Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 2009, viii + 398 pp., $59.95, ISBN 978-1-57003
Free Soil: The Generation and Circulation of an Atlantic Legal Principle
Colonisations
Arlette Gautier, Les Sœurs de Solitude: Femmes et esclavage aux Antilles du xviie au
1L'ouvrage d'Arlette Gautier, Les Soeurs de Solitude, publié en 1985 et aujourd'hui réédité, reste l'étude de référence sur la vie des femmes esclaves africaines dans les Antilles françaises.Sa recherche, associant une solide maîtrise de la démographie à l'histoire culturelle des pratiques sexuées en France, en Afrique et aux Antilles a résisté à l'épreuve du temps.Introduite par une préface d'Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau, la nouvelle édition est a…
Haitian History: New Perspectives, edited by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Freedom Papers Hidden in His Shoe: Navigating Emancipation across Imperial Boundaries
A microhistorical inquiry into the life of Furcy, a man held in slavery in the French Indian Ocean colony of Île Bourbon (today Réunion), sheds light on shifting French policies and practices regarding race and slavery from the Old Regime to the general emancipation of 1848. The mobility of two enslaved domestic servants, Furcy and his mother Madeleine, who traveled between Bengal, Île Bourbon, Mauritius, and continental France, challenged French…
English Liberties
After a year, Lory ordered Furcy removed from the Isle Bourbon prison and sent him to his sister-in-law’s plantation in British Mauritius. Joseph Lory helped to finance the illegal Indian Ocean slave trade; the captain and supercargo of the Succès , a ship Lory and his business partner financed, were prosecuted twice for smuggling African slaves, but Lory escaped prosecution. Furcy passed the years trying to get out from Lory’s control by sending…
Afterword
Furcy’s fate after achieving legal recognition of his freedom was difficult to pinpoint, but his life has been reclaimed as a symbol to the people of Réunion who seek justice and equality today. Several plays, an award-winning novel by Mohammed Aïssaoui, and a popular song by Kaf Malbar all celebrate Furcy’s resistance to slavery. Yet the true meaning of Furcy’s struggle for freedom is more ambiguous; he certainly fought long and hard for his own…
The Limits of Law
The Napoleonic Code, as interpreted in the Mascarene Islands, hampered manumission and severely restricted the rights of free people of color. The slave trade was abolished precisely as the islands invested in sugar production, creating more onerous conditions for slaves. Mauritius fell under British rule. When her mistress died in 1808, Madeleine learned that the estate owed her nineteen years’ wages, a sum that should have allowed her to purcha…
Madeleine's Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies
Madeleine's Children' is a gripping microhistory/legal case involving two generations of a French family enslaved in the Indian Ocean colonies
Les enfants de Madeleine, esclaves à l'île Bourbon (xviiie-xixe siècle)
En utilisant des exemples tirés d’une famille esclave de la Réunion et de l’île Maurice, cet article analyse comment le choix des prénoms ainsi que des noms de famille a marqué le statut de ses membres et a signalé ou bien dissimulé leurs relations de parenté. Selon le droit colonial français, les pères esclaves ne disposaient pas du statut de pères, mais les noms des esclaves et de leurs descendants conservaient les traces de leur ascendance mat…
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