Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introductory Note - Slavery and Late Serfdom
Chapter 2. Resistances to Slavery in the Different Colonial Spheres (1750-1791)
Chapter 3. Was There a Demand for Abolition in Western Thought in the Eighteenth Century?
Chapter 4. The Revolution and the First Abolition: Insurrections in the Islands, Debates in the Revolutionary Assemblies, Abolitions (1789-1802)
Chapter 5. The Restoration of Slavery and the Reconstruction of the Abolitionist Movements (1802-1848)
Chapter 6. 1848: The Suppression of Slavery: Debates and Modalities of Implementation
Chapter 7. Afterword – On the Abolition of Slavery by the First Republic

Appendix: Summary Chronology of abolitions of the Slave Trade and Slavery

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Marcel Dorigny teaches at the Department of History of the University of Paris 8.

Reviews

"This work has been worth the wait ..All of the articles are of excellent quality, many are clear enough to stand alone for graduate students, and all are thought-provoking either in themselves or as suggestions of new questions that need to be addressed within the French colonies or in the broader comparative literature." · Itinerario