The Problem of Civil Rights for Free Men of Color in the Early French Revolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Valerie Quinney (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 544-544 |
| Publication date | 1972-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/286197 |
| OpenAlex | W2317127056 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The revolutionaries in the French National Assembly of 1789 declared all men free and equal in rights. They began to have second thoughts about that declaration when they were forced to remember that slavery and the slave trade were important aspects of French commerce. Much of the land in France's West Indian colonies-Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Martinique, Guadeloupe, Tobago, Saint-Lucie, and Saint-Martin -was cultivated by slaves. The revolutionaries decided to keep slavery and the slave trade. They hesitated, however, to withhold civil and political rights from men who were free just because they were colored. I intend to show how decisions on blacks and men of color, the unfree and the free, were arrived at by these revolutionaries. Who made the decisions? What interests did they represent? Who influenced them? To answer the first question-Who made the decisions?-it was the Committee on Colonies which defined the alternatives for the
Art history · Civil rights · Declaration · Economic history · Ethnology · Martinique · Political science · Politics · SAINT · West indies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2014 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |