Encyclopédie noire
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Encyclopédie noire

The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World

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Encyclopédie noire

The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World

About this book

If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry is bound to appear. As a lawyer, philosophe, and Enlightenment polymath, Moreau created and compiled an immense archive that remains a vital window into the social, political, and intellectual fault lines of the Age of Revolutions. But the gilded spines and elegant designs that decorate his archive obscure the truth: Moreau’s achievements were predicated upon the work of enslaved people and free people of color. Their labor afforded him the leisure to research, think, and write. Their rich intellectual and linguistic cultures filled the pages of his most applauded works. Every beautiful book Moreau produced contains an embedded story of hidden violence.

Sara Johnson’s arresting investigation of race and knowledge in the revolutionary Atlantic surrounds Moreau with the African-descended people he worked so hard to erase, immersing him in a vibrant community of language innovators, forgers of kinship networks, and world travelers who strove to create their own social and political lives. Built from archival fragments, creative speculation, and audacious intellectual courage, Encyclopédie noire is a communal biography of the women and men who made Moreau’s world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Note on Translation
  8. Introduction: Notes toward a Communal Biography of Moreau de Saint-Méry
  9. Chapter One. Encyclopédie noire: Part I
  10. Chapter Two. Unflattering Portraits: A Visual Critique
  11. Chapter Three. Print Culture and the Empires of Slavery
  12. Chapter Four. Encyclopédie noire: Part II
  13. Chapter Five. Unnatural History: Translation, Coercion, and the Limits of Colonialist Knowledge
  14. Chapter Six. “You Are a Poisoner”: Planter Linguistics in Baudry des Lozière’s “Dictionnaire ou Vocabulaire Congo”
  15. Chapter Seven. B.Dry Loz: Illustrative Storytelling
  16. Chapter Eight. Encyclopédie noire: Part III
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index