Why do the people of the French Caribbean still continue to be
haunted by the memory of their slave past more than one hundred and
fifty years after the abolition of slavery? What process led to the
divorce of their collective memory of slavery and emancipation from
France's portrayal of these historical phenomena? How are
Martinicans and Guadeloupeans today transforming the silences of
the past into historical and cultural manifestations rooted in the
Caribbean? This book answers these questions by relating the 1998
controversy surrounding the 150th anniversary of France's abolition
of slavery to the period of the slave regime spanning the late
Enlightenment and the French Revolution. By comparing a diversity
of documents-including letters by slaves, free people of color, and
planters, as well as writings by the philosophes, royal decrees,
and court cases-the author untangles the complex forces of the
slave regime that have shaped collective memory. The current
nationalization of the memory of slavery in France has turned these
once peripheral claims into passionate political and cultural
debates.
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