They Are Free with Me”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940456 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deirdre Lyons (0000-0002-7098-7723, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 365-397 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00161071-11156272 |
| OpenAlex | W4401067796 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 41 |
Abolitionist lawmakers promulgated policies during the July Monarchy designed to ameliorate the conditions of enslaved people in France's colonies. These reforms focused on family life and curtailing abusive corporal punishment. Scholars have argued these policies were weak and ineffective. However, a series of lawsuits, filed by both enslaved and freed women, reveals how reform engendered conflicts before emancipation in 1848. These lawsuits reveal three important dynamics about the final years of French slavery: how abolitionists drew on these cases to advance reform priorities, how colonial elites reinforced slavery in response, and the critical role enslaved and freed women played as Antillean abolitionists
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The Haitians
Avengers of the New World
Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016
Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth Century France
Négresse, Mulâtresse, Citoyenne
The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution
Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition
Haitian Revolutionary Studies
Wicked Flesh
Neither Slave nor Free
Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans
Dispossessed Lives
Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution
Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies
The fruits of their labours
Abolitions as a global experience
French slave liberation and ‘socialism’
Madeleine’s Children
Anti-Slavery, Religion, and Reform
Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar
Sweet Liberty
Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
Voices of the Enslaved
"Black Magic" and White Terror
Only Paradoxes to Offer
Forgotten Island of the Liberator
Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder
Women and the Politics of Sugar, 1792
Slave Flight, Slave Torture, and the State
Breaking the Ties
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |