Affection amidst domination in a post-slavery society
Toward a microhistory of compensation in nineteenth-century Martinique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20034397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Myriam Cottias (0000-0002-0793-6464, Laboratoire Caribéen de Sciences Sociales, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 239-253 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery : The Atlantic World and Beyond. Volume I (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/chlel.xxxvi.13cot |
| OpenAlex | W4404784309 |
| ISBN | 9789027218148 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This article considers the relationship between compensation and intimacy, focusing on the relationship between the colonist Pierre Dessalles, who owned a plantation in the French colony of Martinique in the mid-nineteenth century, i.e. the period of the abolition of slavery, and Nicaise, one of his slaves. It shows slavery to be a relation of property and domination that did not, however, foreclose the possibility of emotional ties ranging from fear, anger and disgust to love. Readings of the diary of this planter — an exceptional document for its time — show how intimacy and “emotion” in all senses of the word — feelings but also, in French, something closer to “stirring” or “revolt” — both shape and are shaped by the political situation in which they develop
Affection · Epistemology · Political science · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |