The Death of the French Atlantic

Abstract

Abstract The Preface places the book in its historiographical context and asks how far the French Atlantic did ‘die’ in the Age of Revolutions. It places the crisis of the late eighteenth century in a transnational context, linking the histories of France and the Caribbean and discussing fortunes of port cities like Nantes, Bordeaux, and La Rochelle in a deliberately comparative manner. The book draws heavily on recent work on slavery, the slave trade, and the public memory of slavery that has been so influential on both sides of the Atlantic, and sets out to explain political and moral forces, as well as the purely economic issues, which combined to threaten French colonial prosperity.

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