Center: 
Nantes
Discipline(s): 
History
Course code: 
HS 358
Terms offered: 
Fall
Credits: 
3
Language of instruction: 
French
Instructor: 
Dr. Yann Lignereux
Description: 

This course addresses the relationship of Nantes and France with the Atlantic world and the North-American continent as part of the 16th to 18th century colonization. Nantes plays a central part in the triangular trade until the early 19th century. Economic, political and social relations will be particularly developed during this course.

Method of presentation: 

Lecture

Required work and form of assessment: 

Attendance and participation (10%), term paper (25%), mid-term exam (25%), final exam (40%).

content: 
  1. The “New France”, from the origins to 1763
  2. The French Antilles: conquest, development and settlement
  3. The plantations system: the example of Beauharnais
  4. Slavery and the Black Code of 1685
  5. Nantes, French capital of the slave trade
  6. From slavery to abolition
  7. French Revolution and the colonies (1789-91)
  8. The law of the 16 pluviôse an II
  9. The colonial reaction under the Convention and the Directoire
  10. Bonaparte and the re-establishment of slavery
Required readings: 
  • G. Havard and C. Vidal. Histoire de l’Amérique française, Paris, Flammarion, 2006.
  • P. Butel. Histoire des Antilles françaises, Paris, Perrin, 2007.
  • O. Petre-Grenouilleau. La traite des Noirs ; Paris PUF, 1997.