Caroline Oudin-Bastide et Philippe Steiner, Calcul et morale

The title of this book might seem to signify a cliometric study on the profitability of French slavery during the latter part of the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth century. However, Caroline Oudin-Bastide and Philippe Steiner clearly point out in their introduction that this is not the case. In reading this work it becomes apparent that there is in fact inadequate statistical evidence for a cliometric approach to slavery in the French colonial context. Indeed, one is surprised to

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