2014
DOI: 10.1111/lsi.12087
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Across Oceans and Revolutions: Law and Slavery in French Saint‐Domingue and Beyond

Abstract: New work on colonial legal regimes suggests new pathways for scholarship on legal regimes, legal consciousness, judicial personnel, and the Atlantic world. Malick Ghachem's recent book, The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution (2012), introduces scholars to one legal regime-that of the French plantation colony of SaintDomingue-to show how enslaved and free people continually negotiated the terms of master sovereignty and manumission. This debate lasted from Saint-Domingue's establishment as a slave society in… Show more

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