Jacques-Pierre Brissot and the Fate of Atlantic Antislavery during the Age of Revolutionary Wars

Abstract

Jacques-Pierre Brissot is best known as the leader of the Girondin faction during the French Revolution. His name is also usually associated with the beginning of the French revolutionary wars in 1792, and with the rise of the slave rebellion in the French colony of Saint Domingue from 1791 onwards. This is due in particular to his involvement in the first French antislavery society, the Société des Amis des Noirs (Society of the Friends of the Blacks), which he founded and led.