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Gipson Institute

Events

Sep

28

Lecture

Slavery and Race in the French Revolution with Jeremy Popkin

Location:
STEPS 101
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In 1789, the French revolutionaries issued their Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, whose first article proclaimed that “men are born and remain free and equal in rights.” But would they extend those rights to the 800,000 enslaved Black men and women in their colonies…