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The Haitian Revolution and the Refugees of Decolonization: the Former White Planters of Saint-Domingue in Paris and Their Campaign for Indemnity under the Restoration, 1814-1830

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2014, (31), pp.55~80
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Yun Kyoung KWON 1

1이화여자대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The Haitian Revolution produced a mass of refugees from Saint- Domingue. Among them, this article focuses on the former white planters who settled in France. After the return of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814, they presented themselves as double victims of the French and Haitian Revolutions and claimed social recognition of their suffering and public compensation for their material loss. Investigating their campaign under the Restoration, this article raises largely three questions. How and in what manners did they ask for the material and symbolic reparation from the metropole? Beyond their group politics, how did their campaign affect post-revolutionary French debate on slavery, colonialism and racism? And how can we situate their campaign in a longer process of colonization and decolonization?

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