{"id":64199,"date":"2023-03-13T03:20:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T03:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64199"},"modified":"2023-03-13T03:20:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T03:20:19","slug":"moral-electricity-melvil-bloncourt-and-the-trans-atlantic-struggle-for-abolition-and-equal-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64199","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Moral electricity\u2019: Melvil-Bloncourt and the trans-Atlantic struggle for abolition and equal rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/0144039X.2018.1539459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>\u2018Moral electricity\u2019: Melvil-Bloncourt and the trans-Atlantic struggle for abolition and equal rights<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/journals\/fsla20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slavery &amp; Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/fsla20\/40\/3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volume 40, 2019 &#8211; Issue 3<\/a><br \/>\npages 543-562<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/0144039X.2018.1539459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1080\/0144039X.2018.1539459<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bryanplapointe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bryan LaPointe<\/strong><\/a>, Ph.D. Candidate in History<br \/>\n<em>Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Little known to historians, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guadeloupe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guadeloupean<\/a>-born antislavery and equal rights activist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sainte_Suzanne_Melvil-Bloncourt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sainte-Suzanne Melvil-Bloncourt<\/a> exemplified the complex trans-Atlantic networks forged for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abolitionism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abolitionist<\/a> cause across the nineteenth century. As a contributing journalist for a Parisian political and literary publication, Melvil-Bloncourt produced numerous pieces on the history and politics of slavery and emancipation around the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_World\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlantic world<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Civil War<\/a> especially galvanized Melvil-Bloncourt into more fervent antislavery action, prompting him not only to connect with activists based in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Orleans<\/a> and the famous abolitionist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederick_Douglass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frederick Douglass<\/a>, but also to raise money in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/France\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a> for former American slaves. This project explores the depth of Melvil-Bloncourt\u2019s emancipationist sensibilities and activism, guided by what he deemed \u2018moral electricity,\u2019 highlighting the influence of the otherwise overlooked Francophone world in the age of emancipation.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/0144039X.2018.1539459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little known to historians, the Guadeloupean-born antislavery and equal rights activist Sainte-Suzanne Melvil-Bloncourt exemplified the complex trans-Atlantic networks forged for the abolitionist cause across the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,369,8,6940,20],"tags":[33777,33776,10563],"class_list":["post-64199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-bryan-lapointe","tag-sainte-suzanne-melvil-bloncourt","tag-slavery-abolition-a-journal-of-slave-and-post-slave-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64200,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64199\/revisions\/64200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}