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An enslaved Enlightenment: rethinking the intellectual history of the French Atlantic *
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In 1971, Michèle Duchet published Anthropologie et histoire au siècle des lumières (Anthropology and History in the Century of the Enlightenment), which provided a sweeping analysis of the French p...
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“The presentation of freedom and liberty as the antithesis of slavery is at the core of global understandings of slavery through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Dubois, L.
- Affiliations
- Michigan State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Dubois, Laurent
- ORCID
- Dubois, Laurent
- Venue
- Social History
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2006-02
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-14
- ISSN
- 0307-1022 (ISSN-L)
- 1470-1200
- OpenAlex
- W2082556413
- Cited by
- 181
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 13.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Social History (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › History of Colonial Brazil
- Keywords
- slavery, Enlightenment, French Atlantic, intellectual history, history and anthropology
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