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Slavery and the French Revolutionists 1788-1805
| Author: | Keller, Frances Cordaro, Philip | |
| Year: | 1988 | |
| Pages: | 220 | |
| ISBN: | 0-88946-637-8 978-0-88946-637-1 | |
| Price: | $179.95 | |
The first translation and publication of a 1925 doctoral dissertation written for the University of Paris by a 67-year-old Black American expatriate woman who had been born a slave. Her study of the French revolutionists' view of slavery is crucial to understanding the growth of human rights.
Reviews
"An important historical curiosity." - Choice
". . . an excellent study on the relations between the eighteenth-century revolutionists of Paris and the inhabitants of Santo Domingo." - The North Carolina Historical Review
". . . an excellent study on the relations between the eighteenth-century revolutionists of Paris and the inhabitants of Santo Domingo." - The North Carolina Historical Review