Voices in the legal archives in the French Colonial World "the king is listening" / edited by Nancy Christie, Michael Gauvreau, and Matthew Gerber.

Other author Christie, Nancy, 1958-
Other author Gauvreau, Michael, 1956-
Other author Gerber, Matthew.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Descriptionix, 365 pages ; 24 cm
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SeriesRoutledge research in early modern history
Contents Controlling Haitian history : the legal archive of Moreau de Saint-M©♭ry / Malick W. Ghachem -- Proof of freedom, proof of enslavement : the limits of documentation in colonial Saint-Domingue / Jennifer L. Palmer -- Silencing madmen : the legal process of interdiction, Saint-Domingue, eighteenth century / Marie Houllemare -- The treatment of domestic servants in Canada's justice system under the French regime : a conciliatory approach? / Arnaud Bessi©·re -- Contesting the Seigneurial Corv©♭e : two generations of peasant litigation in eighteenth-century Angoumois / Emily Rap -- Between property and person : the ambiguous status of slaves in eighteenth-century Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Saint-Domingue / Matthew Gerber -- Trust, obligation, and the racialized credit market in pre-revolutionary cap Fran©ʹais / Meredith Gaffield -- The inhabitants "appear are not such fools as a menny thinks" : credit, debt, and peasant litigation in post-conquest Quebec / Michael Gauvreau and Nancy Christie -- The voice of the litigant, the voice of the spokesman? : the role of interpreters in trials in Canada under the French regime (17th and 18th Centuries) / ©œric Wenzel -- Voices of litigating women in new France during the 17th and 18th centuries : elements of research on the judicial culture of the appellants in the archives of the Royal Jurisdiction of Montreal (1693-1760) / Dominique Deslandres -- Slaves as witnesses, slaves as evidence : French and British prosecution of the slave trade in the Indian Ocean / Susan Peabody -- When French islands became British : law, property, and inheritance in the ceded islands / Heather Freund -- Contested spaces of law and economy : legal hybridity and the marital economy within Quebec's merchant communities / Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau.
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ISBN9780367508067 (hardback)
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