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Precede d’un court chapeau introductif, l’entretien avec Adam Rothman, professeur d’histoire a l’universite de Georgetown, a Washington, D.C., retrace le processus entame par l’universite afin d’explorer les liens de l’institution avec l’esclavage et d’envisager les formes de reparations possibles.

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A la suite des drames de Charleston (17 juin 2015) et de Charlottesville (12 aout 2017), une partie de l’opinion etats-unienne s’est mise a exiger le retrait des monuments a la gloire des confederes, eriges pour la plupart au tournant du xxe siecle. Cet article replace la question des statues et monuments confederes dans le contexte de leur edification (les annees de segregation et de domination blanche dans le Sud) et explore les enjeux memoriels et politiques qui y sont associes, alors et aujourd’hui.

As the slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue embarked on a rebellion in 1791 that was to lead to the creation of Haiti in 1804, Cuba began to cultivate sugar and import slaves on a massive ...

Edited by Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Universite Paris Diderot and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Universite Paris 8 – Vincennes St Denis and Institut Universitaire de France In The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet (1713-1784): From French Reformation to North American Quaker Antislavery Activism, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke offer the first scholarly study fully examining Anthony Benezet, inspirator of 18th-century antislavery activism, as an Atlantic figure. Contributions cover his Huguenot heritage and later influence on the French antislavery movement (which had never been explored as thoroughly before) as well as his Quaker faith and connections with the Quaker community in the British Atlantic world (in the North American colonies as well as in Britain). Beyond the Quaker community, his preoccupation with Africa is highlighted, and further research is also encouraged reconciling Benezet studies with those on black rebels and founders in the Atlantic world.

In The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet (1713-1784): From French Reformation to North American Quaker Antislavery Activism, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke offer the first scholarly volume examining Anthony Benezet, inspirator of 18th-century antislavery activism, as an Atlantic figure.

Although most historians know about the various compromises on slavery and the slave trade that were reached during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, few have examined Madison’s account of the Philadelphia debates as a prism through which the variety of North American opinions on slavery and the slave trade were expressed. Antislavery as well as proslavery positions were voiced, with sectional lines often blurred. The compromises which were reached revealed the conflicted hopes as well as the fears of the founders for the future of the new nation., Les historiens connaissent bien les différents compromis sur l’esclavage et la traite auxquels parvinrent les constituants durant la Convention de Philadelphie en 1787, mais rares sont ceux qui se sont attardés sur le texte des débats lui-même. Le compte rendu de Madison constitue un prisme à travers lequel la diversité des opinions nord-américaines sur la traite et l’esclavage se reflète, des positions anti-esclavagistes aux pro-esclavagistes, sans que soit respectée la division Nord/Sud. Les compromis atteints révèlent aussi bien les espoirs divergents que les craintes des fondateurs envers l’avenir de la nouvelle nation., Rossignol Marie-Jeanne. Mai-Septembre 1787 : Derrière les murs d’Independence Hall à Philadelphie, un débat national sur l’esclavage et la traite. In: Cahiers Charles V, n°46,2009. L'Empire britannique en héritage: esclavage, abolition, discrimination et commémoration de l'Amérique du Nord à l'Australie. pp. 21-69.

Did the era of transatlantic Revolutions start an irresistible movement for the liberation of slaves ? Although early abolitions were decided in Vermont, Pennsylvania, and then Saint-Domingue, in the 1780s and 1790s, the post-revolutionary period seems to have dampened abolitionist fervour in North America, with the notion of property prevailing over liberty. This is what one can deduce from the long dispute between Britain and America over the slaves allegedly 'stolen by the British during the American Revolution ; this argument poisoned relations between the two countries until 1794., Rossignol Marie-Jeanne. Esclavage et espace atlantique. Courants et contre-courants révolutionnaires. L'article 7 du traité anglo-américain de 1783 et ses conséquences jusqu'en 1794. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°33, 2001. L'Atlantique, sous la direction de Marcel Dorigny . pp. 281-299.