“A Dangerous Zeal”: Catholic Missions to Slaves in the French Antilles, 1635-1800

Sue Peabody is associate professor of history at Washington State University, Vancouver. Her book “There Are No Slaves in France”: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime will soon be followed by a collection edited with Tyler Stovall, The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France,forthcoming from Duke University Press. She is currently working on a comparative study of slaves' liberty suits throughout the Atlantic World.