A conference on the revolutionary upheavals that shook metropolitan France and the French colonies and populations in North America, from the late eighteenth through the early nineteenth century. Held in conjunction with the exhibit The Time to Right all Wrongs: France, Haiti, and Philadelphia in A Revolutionary Age.
Hosted by: Kislak Center
A conference co-sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Kislak Center.
This conference will focus on the revolutionary upheavals that shook metropolitan France and the French colonies and populations in North America, from the late eighteenth through the early nineteenth century. Panelists will address the circulation of revolutionary ideas, images, books, goods, individuals, and practices, from the American Revolution to France, or from the French and Haitian Revolutions to elsewhere in the Americas. The conference will pay particular attention to the reception of French and Haitian revolutionary ideas and personages in early republican Philadelphia. Plenary speakers include Roger Chartier, Robert Darnton, François Furstenberg, and Sara E. Johnson.
Held in conjunction with the exhibit The Time to Right all Wrongs: France, Haiti, and Philadelphia in A Revolutionary Age.
Featured image: Marcus Rainsford (artist), Inigo Barlow (engraver), "View of a Temple erected by the Blacks to commemorate their Emancipation," in Rainsford, An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti ... ([London]: James Cundee, 1805). Rare Book Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
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