Slaves in Paris

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Slaves in Paris is written by Miranda Spieler and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674300785 (ISBN 10) and 9780674300781 (ISBN 13).

Mistaking Paris for a haven of freedom, slaves sought refuge there only to be hunted down, arrested, and deported. Through the biographies of enslaved people who came to Paris from Africa, the West Indies, and the Indian Ocean, Spieler’s study reveals the emergence of a new racialized legal culture in the last years of the Old Regime.