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Emancipation and Citizenship: the Revolution of 1848 and Victor Schoelcher’s Republican Assimilationism

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2017, (37), pp.71~105
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History
  • Published : August 31, 2017

Yun Kyoung KWON 1

1공주대학교

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ABSTRACT

For Victor Schoelcher, the proclamation of emancipation in 1848 marked a pinnacle in the long political career of “the Liberator.” The 1848 proclamation was very radical in that it immediately abolished colonial slavery without any intermediary term, and bestowed full citizenship and political rights on the freed people. His project of making the colonies an integral part of the French Republic founded colonial assimilationism. Focusing on the theories and practices of universal citizenship enshrined in the 1848 emancipation, this article examines both paradoxes and possibilities of Schoelcher’s republican assimilationism, thereby illuminating the complicated legacies of 1848.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.