A Business Archive of the French Illegal Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century

IF 1.8 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Past & Present Pub Date : 2021-08-04 DOI:10.1093/pastj/gtaa026
Joseph la Hausse de Lalouvière
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Following the abolition of the transatlantic trade in African captives, slave traders from France, Spain and Cuba devised strategies of concealment to perpetuate and even expand their enterprise. A close reading of the unexpurgated logbooks and business correspondence of the Jeune Louis, a French ship that transported more than three hundred captives from the Bight of Biafra to Havana in 1825, identifies three decisive innovations in the Franco-Cuban branch of the illegal slave trade. Transnational business structure, risk management through honour-based marine insurance policies, and redacted record keeping transformed the wider Atlantic slave-trading sector into one capable of eluding attempts at international suppression. The clandestine techniques that this transnational slaving network developed to skirt the law also distorted the archival record of that traffic. Accounting for the resulting distortions and disappearances will enable future researchers to better navigate them.
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19世纪法国非法贩卖奴隶的商业档案
在废除跨大西洋非洲俘虏贸易后,来自法国、西班牙和古巴的奴隶贩子制定了隐蔽策略,以延续甚至扩大他们的企业。仔细阅读1825年从比亚夫拉湾向哈瓦那运送了300多名俘虏的法国船只“路易号”(Jeune Louis)未经删节的航海日志和商业信件,可以发现非法奴隶贸易的法古分支有三个决定性的创新。跨国业务结构、通过基于荣誉的海上保险单进行的风险管理以及经过编辑的记录保存,使更广泛的大西洋奴隶贸易部门成为一个能够躲避国际镇压企图的部门。这个跨国奴隶网络为规避法律而开发的秘密技术也扭曲了贩运的档案记录。对由此产生的扭曲和失踪进行解释将使未来的研究人员能够更好地驾驭它们。
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