Enslaved in France: household colonialism, adolescents of African descent, and everyday practices of race making in the Old Regime

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• Julie Hardwick (UT Austin)
• Thursday 27 April 2023, 17:00-19:00
• History Faculty Room 11.

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What if we begin modern French history in 1659, when France established a foothold in West Africa to enter the slave trade rather than in the conventional revolutionary year of 1789? This paper focuses on working households in western Brittany where enslaved (mostly male) teenagers were placed, in theory to be educated as Catholics and trained in a trade, to explore the daily racial dynamics of the emergence of a multi-racial population in France.

This talk is part of the Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars series.

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