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Sovereignty and slavery in the age of revolution :Haitian variations on a metropolitan theme.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sovereignty and slavery in the age of revolution :
Reminder of title:	Haitian variations on a metropolitan theme.
Author:	Ghachem, Malick Walid.
Description:	417 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Keith Michael Baker.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-01, Section: A, page: 0324.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-01A.
Subject:	History, European.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3038094
ISBN:	0493517510

Sovereignty and slavery in the age of revolution :Haitian variations on a metropolitan theme.
Ghachem, Malick Walid.

Sovereignty and slavery in the age of revolution :Haitian variations on a metropolitan theme.[electronic resource] - 417 p.

Adviser: Keith Michael Baker.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2002.

Part Two of the dissertation focuses on the tension between membership and autonomy that dominated colonial pamphlet literature after the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763. The nature of French sovereignty over Saint-Domingue in this period was hotly debated in connection with the monarchy's efforts to reform the mercantile trading regime. The question of whether the colonists could assert the privileges of metropolitan membership while claiming the benefits of commercial autonomy was also raised by the movement to enact a code of laws compatible with the interests of “local custom.” In both cases, slavery aggravated the general uncertainty over what it meant for an overseas territory to belong to the French state.

ISBN: 0493517510Subjects--Topical Terms:

212425
History, European.

Sovereignty and slavery in the age of revolution :Haitian variations on a metropolitan theme.
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520 # $a The final part of the thesis begins with an account of the most publicized case of planter brutality in the colony's history, which brought the conflict between domestic authority and public order to the fore only months before the convening of the Estates General. The planters' subsequent decision to seek representation in the metropole renewed that Old Regime competition once again and proved to be one of the critical turning points in the path to the colonial revolution.
520 # $a The governance of slavery in Saint-Domingue was characterized by a complex and sometimes competitive relationship between two forms of “absolutism”: the “domestic” sovereignty of planters and the public sovereignty of the royal administration. Part One of the dissertation explores this competition with reference to the regulation of manumission and the question of planter brutality. In these contexts the interests of “public order” and the principle of private dominion clashed, leading the authorities to impose restrictions that the planters typically rejected as a violation of their domestic prerogatives.
520 # $a This thesis provides an account of the politics of slavery in the eighteenth-century French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti). It analyzes the central tensions in the colony's administrative history as case studies of an overarching theme: the nature of slavery as an institution torn between “private” and “public” law. At the same time, the dissertation uses those tensions to form one interpretation of the colonial origins of the Haitian Revolution.
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