Silenced Contributions: Free Men of Color during the French Revolution (1789-1791)
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2024.e101910Keywords:
Saint Domingue, free people of color, French Revolution, Haitian Revolution, French EmpireAbstract
Still little known in international and Brazilian historiography, free men of color played an intense political role in the early years of the French Revolution in their quest for representation in the National Assembly. Their actions mobilized white colonists interested in maintaining racial inequality and revealed how tolerant French revolutionary discourse could be towards differences. This paper analyzes a specific document produced by the Society of American Colonists, a group formed by free people of color based in Paris whose objective was to justify the need for specific representation for black people from the colonies in the National Assembly.
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