« Citoyens et amis! » Esclavage, citoyenneté et République dans les Antilles françaises à l'époque révolutionnaire.

Examines the process of slave insurrection, emancipation and re-enslavement during the revolutionary period in Guadeloupe. Need to understand the slave resistance of the period as the expression of a political project which created its own political culture; Transformation of the language of rights and the meaning of citizenship; Failure of the political imagination of metropolitan administrators to maintain fairly conservative regimes involving labor coercion.