Sudanese Military Slavery from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century

‘Recognition of a Black Empire founded upon insurrection and upon the massacre of the white population’, the French prime minister told the British ambassador in 1825, ‘would have a most pernicious moral effect’1 Haiti posed, for the colonial and slave-owning powers, a potential threat. It was seen as a symbol of emancipation and was a sign of hope for the black slaves of the Caribbean and of the southern states of the USA. Ye t despite Villèle's warning, the French government recognised the independence of Haiti in that year, manifestly believing that the economic and political benefits for France outweighed the pernicious moral effects

Ancient history · Political science · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History

• Paradiplomacia en Medio Oriente

  Open Access•Roberto Marín Guzmán•Estudios de Asia y África•2010

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