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SUMMARY:By Flesh and Toil: How Sex\, Race\, and Labor Shaped the Early Fre
 nch Empire - Mélanie Lamotte (Duke) 
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CONTACT:Dr AM Price
DESCRIPTION:Mélanie Lamotte’s paper shows how an increasingly cohesive 
 legal culture came to govern the lives of enslaved and free people of Afri
 can\, Malagasy\, South Asian\, and Native American descent in the early Fr
 ench Empire. The talk will highlight the important role played by these po
 pulations in the making and unmaking of the French empire\, from Louisiana
  to Guadeloupe\, Senegambia\, Madagascar\, Isle Bourbon\, and India. Throu
 gh their sexuality and their labor\, along with their socio-economic and p
 olitical endeavors\, they played a critical role in building the empire an
 d setting its limits. As they sought justice for themselves\, strove to pr
 otect their kin\, and aimed to improve their social conditions\, these ind
 ividuals also pushed against the advancement of white dominion in unexpect
 ed ways.
LOCATION:https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95307260045
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