Liberty, Equality, and Property

Property, Slavery, and Power

Background Reading
Censer and Hunt, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, pp. 115-129.

Discussion: 26 Oct. 2007, Liberty and Equality
(you should print these documents and bring them to discussion class on Friday)
Paris affiches in translation, a few selections
Barnave, speech on behalf of the Colonial Committee in the National Assembly (March 8, 1790), on-line
Le Chapelier Law on workers, on-line
Kersaint, Discussion of Troubles in the Colonies (March 1792), on-line
Jacques Roux, Manifesto of the Enragés (1793), on-line
Babeuf, Manifesto of Equals, selections on-line

Further Reading
Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World : the story of the Haitian Revolution (2004).
Laurent Dubois, A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean (2004).
David B. Gaspar and David P. Geggus, eds., A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean (1997).
David Geggus, "Racial Equality, Slavery, and Colonial Secession during the Constituent Assembly," American Historical Review 94 (Dec. 1989).
C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins (1938; 1980).
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "An Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non-event," in his Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995).

British Parliament and the Slave Trade, 1600-1807 (remember that the slave trade was international, hence this material is more relevant to the French case than it may initially appear)


Toussaint Louverture Project


Slave Trade Archives (UNESCO, Memory of the World Project)