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DESCRIPTION:As part of the series “Slavery Old and New: Labour Exploitation
  through the Ages and around the Globe”\, Prof. Jean-François Niort (Unive
 rsité des Antilles). Jean-François Niort est Docteur en science politique 
 (Paris 1)\, et maître de conférences à l'Université des Antilles et de la 
 Guyane depuis 2004.\n\nLunch will be provided\, RSVPs to oppenheimer [at] 
 mcgill [dot] ca are appreciated.\n\nLegal Frameworks and Economic Practice
 s Around Slave Labour in Colonial Society: The Case of the French West Ind
 ies (Guadeloupe-Martinique) in the 18th Century \n\nKindly note that this 
 talk will be in French.\n\nAbstract\n\nThis talk aims to clarify the relat
 ionship between the legal frameworks and economic practices around slave l
 abour in colonial society of the Little French West Indies ('Petites Antil
 les' : Guadeloupe et Martinique) through the evolution of legal rules in t
 he 18th century. Two enactments were particularly significant: the Royal d
 ecree ('Edit') of March 1685 regulating slavery in the French colonies (co
 mmonly referred to as the 'Code Noir' or ‘’Black Code’’) and the Decree ('
 Ordonnance') of the Governor General of the West Indies on the ‘’police gé
 nérale des nègres et gens de couleur’’ of December 1783.\n\nIndeed\, by co
 mparing the two enactments and their incentives\, we notice\, on one hand\
 , the nature and magnitude of the economic practices already identified by
  historians (such as G. Bebien\, J. Fallope\, A. Perotin-Dumon\, F. Régent
 \, C. Oudin-Bastide). On the other hand\, we also uncover the modalities w
 ith which colonial authorities have tried to supervise and regulate these 
 economic practices since the 17th century\, with varying success.\n\nAll o
 f this confirms the overall pattern of a highly complex colonial society w
 here each group of social actors (different social categories of slaves an
 d owner-inhabitants\, central State\, as well as different types of local 
 colonial authorities) defends its own economic interests in the context of
  a common strategy of avoidance and circumvention of the law - which led t
 o the recurrent reaffirmation of the legal norm - to its solidification an
 d adaptation nearly proportional to its degree of practical inefficiency.
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LOCATION:Room 107 (via video-conference)\, Burnside Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montre
 al\, H3A 0B9\, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Legal Frameworks and Economic Practices Around Slave Labour in Colo
 nial Society
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 tices-around-slave-labour-colonial-society-254194
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