France and Antilles

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

It will not be so much to describe and understand the establishment of the slave system of plantations and its dismantling before and after 1848, as to observe how the Caribbean world has constantly reacted with the French metropolis, and more generally European : in the perception of the Black Other, at the time of the French Revolution and in the abolitionist struggle for freedom, in the development of French capitalism.