Slavery and the French and Haitian revolutionists = L'attitude de la France áa l'âegard de l'esclavage pendant la Râevolution / edited and translated by Frances Richardson Keller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, Anna J. (Anna Julia), 1858-1964.

Contributor:

Keller, Frances Richardson, 1917-

Standardized Title:

Attitude de la France âa l'âegard de l'esclavage pendant la râevolution. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Revolutionaries.

History.

Slavery.

Public opinion.

Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804.

Haiti.

Slavery--Haiti--Public opinion--History--18th century.

Revolutionaries--France--Attitudes--History--18th century.

Public opinion--France--History--18th century.

France.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.

Physical Description:

v, 161 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm

Edition:

New edition.

Other Title:

Attitude de la France áa l'âegard de l'esclavage pendant la Râevolution

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2006]

Summary:

On March 23, 1925, at the age of 66, Anna Julia Cooper stood ready to defend her dissertation before a review committee at the University of Paris. Cooper's remarkable intellectual achievement was the product of years of hard work and determination, a highly unusual journey for a child born to an enslaved mother in 1858.

Her dissertation, "L'attitude de la France a L'egard de L'esclavage pendant la Revolution," offered a bold interpretation of the French Revolution. In it, Cooper examined the relations between the eighteenth-century revolutionists in Paris and the representatives and inhabitants of the richest of French colonies, San Domingue. She argued that the legalized slave trade became a critical issue in the struggle over the rights of man during the French Revolution and that when the revolutionists of Paris deflected the question of slavery in San Domingue, the people of France lost the opportunity to escalate their liberty and equality. Cooper insisted that to understand the French Revolution and its repercussions, it was necessary to add the dimension of race. As an African-American woman, her work provides readers with a unique and powerful perspective on these turbulent events during the French and Haitian Revolutions.

Contents:

Preface to the New Edition: The International Connections of Anna Julia Cooper's Story 3

Introductory Essay: The Perspective of a Black American on Slavery and the French Revolution: Anna Julia Cooper 11.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Paris, 1925) under the title: L'attitude de la France âa l'âegard de l'esclavage pendant la râevolution.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-152) and index.

ISBN:

0742544745

OCLC:

62281505