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1848 the colonies and History How did the reading and the interpretation of the Second Republic in the colonies evolve, during this short period but often crucial in their histories? The Centenary has been marked by the celebration of the "schoelcherian cult", while the colonies of Guadeloupe, of Guyana, of Martinique and of Reunion island were given the status of overseas regions of France. During the 1960/1970's a new historiographic trend was born against simplistic historical speeches, questioning the monographic and french-centered compartmentalizations, revaluating the european abolitionists' part and the part played by the slaves themselves in the supression of slavery. It is now time for comparisons on an international level, especially in the Caribbeans' case. The research fields are still wide open, thanks to the existence of many sources on this period: the electoral professions of faith, the newspaper articles, the parliamentary studies, the exchanges of political correspondences, the sources with religious origins, masonic origins, private and judicial origins. Even with it's social and political divisions, 1848 cannot be considered a year of major shockwave. It places itself in the economical and colonial continuum, marked by the confirmation of the sugar monoculture -especially on the American continent-, the continuation of a policy of mass insertion of underpaid foreign workers, and the strengthening of the colonial regime.

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1848, Colonies, Historiographie
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Nelly Schmidt, “1848, des colonies et l'histoire”Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle [Online], 14 | 1997, Online since 10 September 2008, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rh19/114; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rh19.114

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