Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1997 by "Choice".
"[A] superb scholarly investigation of the so-called 'Freedom
Principle'...Strongly based on archival research, this well-written
study deserves wide readership."--CHOICE
"[G]rounded firmly in archival research and a comprehensive survey
of secondary material."--History
"The book is a good example of the wealth of information that can
be gleaned from an examination of legal cases. Peabody's scholarly
monograph is a welcome addition to what is still a narrow shelf of
books and articles about race and slavery in eighteenth-century
France."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Peabody has produced a solid piece of legal and social
hostory...[T]his is an impressively researched, exhaustively
documented book, a model of how to exploit archival and legal
primary sources. It should prove to be the definitive study of the
slavery question in mainland France prior to the French
Revolution."--American Historical Review
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