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Frontiers of Servitude - Slavery in Narratives of the Early French Atlantic (Hardcover)
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Frontiers of Servitude - Slavery in Narratives of the Early French Atlantic (Hardcover)
Series: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
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Frontiers of servitude explores the fundamental ideas behind early
French thinking about Atlantic slavery in little-examined printed
and archival sources, focusing on what 'made' a slave, what was
unique about Caribbean labour, and what strategic approaches meant
in interacting with slaves. From c. 1620 -1750, authoritative
discourses were confronted with new social realities, and servitude
was accompanied by continuing moral uncertainties. Slavery gave the
ownership of labour and even time, but slaves were a troubling
presence. Colonists were wary of what slaves knew, and were aware
of how imperfect the strategies used to control them were.
Commentators were conscious of the fragility of colonial society,
with its social and ecological frontiers, its renegade slaves, and
its population born to free fathers and slave mothers. This book
will interest specialists and more general readers interested in
the history and literature of the Atlantic and Caribbean. -- .
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