Abolitions of Salvery Book

	Preface
	A Keynote Conference
	Introductory Note: Slavery and Late Serfdom
1	Slavery and Law: Legitimations of an Insurrection	3
2	Forms of Resistance in Bourbon, 1750-1789	17
3	Resistance to the Slave Trade in African Trading Posts	40
4	Slave Resistance in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the French Colonies in America, and Chiefly the Windward Islands	44
5	The Church and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Saint-Domingue	55
6	British Abolitionism, 1787-1838	71
7	The Enlightenment and Slavery in North America in the Eighteenth Century	79
8	Is Slavery Reformable? Proposals of Colonial Administrators at the End of the Ancien Regime	101
9	Slavery before the Moral Conscience of the French Enlightenment: Indifference, Unease and Revolt	111
10	Mirabeau and the Societe des Amis des Noirs: Which Way to Abolish Slavery?	121
11	Slavery and French Economists, 1750-1830	133
12	The Chain of Slave Insurrections in the Caribbean, 1789-1791	147
13	The Revolutionary Festivals and the Abolition of Slavery in Year II	155
14	The Role of the Saint-Domingue Deputation in the Abolition of Slavery	167
15	The Constitutionalization of General Freedom under the Directory	180
16	Baco and Burnel's Attempt to Implement Abolition in the Mascarenes in 1796: Analysis of a Failure and Its Consequences	197
17	Port-la-Liberte, Year III: Demographic Approach to New Citizens	207
18	Saint-Domingue: From French Colony to Independent Haiti - a Numismatic Iconography	217
19	30 Floreal Year X: The Restoration of Slavery by Bonaparte	229
20	Slavery, Colonial Economy and French Development Choices during the First Industrialization (1802-1840)	237
21	The Reconstruction of the French Abolitionist Movement under the July Monarchy	248
22	Resistance Movements in the French Colonies: The Bissette Affair (1823-1827)	255
23	Changes in Colonial Ideology in France before 1848: From Slavery to Abolitionism	261
24	From Bug-Jargal to Toussaint Louverture: Romanticism and the Slave Rebel	272
25	Slavery and the Roots of British Racism	285
26	Spanish Policy towards the Abolition of Slavery in the Nineteenth Century	291
27	Abolition or Destruction of the Slave System?	296
28	The Drafting of the 1848 Decrees: Immediate Application and Long-Term Consequences	305
29	22 May 1848: Against 'Tropical Neo-revisionism'	314
30	From Definitive Manumissions to the Emancipation of 1848	318
31	The Abolition of Slavery in Tunisia: Towards a History of the Black Community	330
32	Two Memories in the Present: Leger Felicite Sonthonax, Victor Schoelcher	340
	Afterword: On the Abolition of Slavery by the First Republic	353
App	Summary Chronology of Abolitions of the Slave Trade and Slavery	359
	List of Contributors	364
	Index of Personal Names	365