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Boissonnade, Representation of St.-Dom. in Estates General, 1906
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Saint-Domingue a la veille de la revolution et la question de la repre-sentation colonial aux états-généraux (Janvier 1788 – 7 Juillet 1789): by P.
Boissonade, (5)+6-299, (extract from a volume of the Mémoires de la Socíété des Antiquarires de l’Quest, tome XXIX, année, 1905), Paris/NY, Paul
Geuthner/G.E. Stechert, 1906. (Lacks index, but a quite detailed TOC starts on p. 294. A copious and highly instructive biblio-graphy relating to the
controversy is provided on pp. 290-294. Prof. Boissonade taught at the University of Poitiers. His scholarly history details at length the conflict between
the White Planters of Saint-Domingue and that colony’s Free People of Color, many of the latter being equally wealthy planters and slaveholders. At
issue was colonial representation in the metropolitan Estates General on the eve of the French Revolution. The White Planters of Saint-Domingue,
{sometimes referred to as the “colons,” or as the “French Party in Saint-Domingue,” even though many of them were absentee owners and had long been residents
of Paris and other French cities}, joined together with their peers from the French colonies in the Lesser Antilles in a faction dubbed the Club
Massiac, named after the hotel in Paris where it often met. The combined White Planter lobby, contended that its members alone were entitled to represent
the French colonies. Incongruously, they simultaneously argued for voting entitlements for their delegation appropriate to the size of the full human
popula-tions of those colonies; themselves, the Free People of Color, and the overwhelmingly more populous great mass of slaves. The gravamen of their
argument for excluding representa-tives from among the Free People of Color was that absolute segregation between the races was essential to the
long-term survival of colonial slavery as an institution. This racist controversy between the white and mullato elites of Saint-Domingue in particular
planted the seeds that would, first lead to armed combat against the former by the latter, and then blossom into a full and exceedingly bloody revolution
by the black slaves of Saint-Domingue against both groups and even the French metropole itself.)
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Title:
Saint-Domingue à la veille de la révolution et la question de la représentation coloniale aux Etats généraux, janvier 1788-7 juillet 1789 / par P. Boissonnade, professeur à l'Université de Poitiers.
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OCLC Number:
645364050
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Available Volumes
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| Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
| Volume 1 | | Yes | No |
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