2 Barriers to Accessing France’s Sol Libre in Early Modern France

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of Illustrations XI
5. List of Contributors XIII
6. 1 The European Experience in Slavery 1650–1850: Parallels and Entanglements 1
7. 2 Barriers to Accessing France’s Sol Libre in Early Modern France 23
8. 3 Escaping Enslavement in Eighteenth- Century Scotland 47
9. 4 Variations of African Life in the Eighteenth-Century Netherlands: Between a Boy Servant at the Court of Orange-Nassau and a Lord of the Manor in the Province of Groningen 69
10. 5 Race, Slavery, and the Market: African Lives in Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen 101
11. 6 Free Through Membership in the Imperial Trumpeters’ Guild? On the Legal and Social Position of Black Court Trumpeters in the Holy Roman Empire 129
12. 7 Iconography and the Law: Slaves at the Dresden Court 151
13. 8 On Intimate Terms – An Afterword 183