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The Language Of Race In Revolutionary France And Saint-Domingue, 1789-1792, Jeffery L. Stanley
The Language Of Race In Revolutionary France And Saint-Domingue, 1789-1792, Jeffery L. Stanley
Theses and Dissertations--History
This project studies the historical development of racialist language during the French Revolution as politicians, free people of color, and colonial whites debated the political status of France’s free people of color population. It examines the negotiation of a racialist language that bolstered colonial racial hierarchies with an egalitarian language that sought to level the corporate structures of the Old Regime. I look especially at the ways that language served as a management device to articulate and legitimize new relationships of power in the political culture of the French Revolution. I connect developments in France to the colonies by showing …