Les déclarations parisiennes de non-blancs entre 1738 et 1790 : permanence des catégories et interchangeabilité des statuts

Using the some fourteen hundred declarations of non-Whites made at the Admiralty court in Paris during the last fifty years of the Old Regime, the author seeks to analyse the meanings given to the terms which describe colour throughout the eighteenth century. He notes the near monopoly of the term n...

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Main Author: Pierre H. Boulle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2017-06-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/58021