Further Notes on Negroes and Mulattoes in Eighteenth-Century France
@article{McCoy1954FurtherNO,
title={Further Notes on Negroes and Mulattoes in Eighteenth-Century France},
author={Shelby T. McCoy},
journal={The Journal of Negro History},
year={1954},
volume={39},
pages={284 - 297},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:150108576}
}This material reveals that the Negro residents of eighteenth-century France, relatively few though they were, represented to some degree a cross-section of society, certain of them possessing wealth and aristocratic blood but the vastly greater number coming from the servant class, some disreputable but most of them loyal and honorable. A few rare individuals created for themselves reputations as military and political leaders, yet the great mass lived in obscurity. None is mentioned as a…
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