Events
Cosponsor
- Maison Française
Notes
- Free and open to the public
- First come, first seated
Cul de Sac: PATRIMONY, CAPITALISM, AND SLAVERY IN FRENCH SAINT-DOMINGUE
by Paul Cheney
Wealth and Disaster: Atlantic Migrations from a Pyrenean Town in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
by Pierre Force
Pierre Force talks about his new book, Wealth and Disaster: Atlantic Migrations from a Pyrenean Town in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), which follows two families who emigrate from the same Pyrenean Town to Saint-Domingue, tracing their descendants in an epic saga that spans three generations. Paul Cheney discusses his new book, Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue (University of Chicago Press, 2017), a micro-history of one plantation in France’s richest colony. Emmanuelle Saada and Carl Wennerlind will join the discussion as respondents.
Participants
- Author Paul Cheney Associate Professor of European History and the College University of Chicago
- Author Pierre Force Professor, Department of French and Romance Philology Columbia University
- Discussant Emmanuelle Saada Associate Professor of French and Romance Philology; Director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies Columbia University
- Discussant Carl Wennerlind Associate Professor of History Barnard College
- Moderator Christopher L. Brown Professor of History Columbia University