Dear Colleagues
On Tuesday 3rd May, Dr Dominique Rogers (University of Martinique) will give a talk on
‘Free people of colour in the French Caribbean during the early modern period: old and new perspectives’, as part of the Caribbean Seminars of the University of Warwick.
It will be held in Room S0.10, Social Sciences Building. See this link for a map of the campus
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/interactive/
All welcome. Refreshments available.
An outline of Dominique's research interests:
Dominique ROGERS is maître de Conférences at the Université des Antilles and head of the History Department, she is also a founding member of the Centre International de Recherches sur les traites et les Esclavages (CNRS), who was awarded the European prize des étoiles de l'Europe for the EURESCL project.
Specialist of free people of colour of the capital towns of French Saint-Domingue (Haïti), her talk will offer a wide picture on the state of knowledge on the freedmen on the French Antilles, and will particulary emphasise new perspectives offered by very recent PhD dissertations dealing with Martinique.
Dominique Rogers has recently published an anthology of judiciary material which includes the voices of enslaved men and women of the French Caribbean : Voix d’esclaves. Louisiane, Antilles et Guyanes françaises, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles, Collections sources et documents, Karthala, octobre 2015. She is completing with Boris Lesueur a book on the freedmen and descendants of freedmen in the Atlantic and mediterranean worlds, entitled Sortir de l’esclavage: stigmates, assimilations et recompositions identitaires du xve au xxe siècle (Méditerranée, Europe, Amérique, Afrique). She is also currently directing a multidiscilplinary program on towns and urban societies of the Antilles and the Guyanas from the 16th up to the 21st century in partnership with the Institut National de Recherche en Archéologie Préventive
(INRAP).
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