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A Reassertion of Rights: Fedon’s Rebellion, Grenada, 1795-96

This article examines how the experience of being ruled by different Crowns shaped expectations for inclusion among francophone Catholic planters who became subjects of the British Empire after the Seven Years’ War. Attention to the evolving political economy of Grenada in the latter half of the eig...

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المؤلف الرئيسي:	Murphy, Tessa
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منشور في:	La Révolution française 2018
الموضوعات:	économie politique Grenade Guerre de Sept Ans Guerre d’Indépendance américaine Grenada Seven Years’ War American War of Independence political economy.
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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:lrf_2017 https://doi.org/10.4000/lrf.2017 urn:doi:10.4000/lrf.2017 en https://journals.openedition.org/lrf/2017 2018-06-18T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/i2p1 All rights reserved A Reassertion of Rights: Fedon’s Rebellion, Grenada, 1795-96 La Révolution française IHMC - Institut d'histoire moderne et contemporaine (UMR 8066) info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2105-2557 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/lrf Murphy, Tessa économie politique Grenade Guerre de Sept Ans Guerre d’Indépendance américaine Grenada Seven Years’ War American War of Independence political economy. This article examines how the experience of being ruled by different Crowns shaped expectations for inclusion among francophone Catholic planters who became subjects of the British Empire after the Seven Years’ War. Attention to the evolving political economy of Grenada in the latter half of the eighteenth century reveals that this small Caribbean island was the site of significant debates over political, economic, and religious participation. Residents of Grenada underwent a number of changes in status, first as marginal subjects of the French Crown and, after 1763, as the focus of British experiments in ruling an increasingly diverse empire. Throughout these imperial transitions, francophone Catholic planters in the island relied on diplomacy to transform customary rights into formal political privileges. In the wake of the American War of Independence, these privileges were denied to them for the first time. Adopting a longer durée view of Grenada’s colonial history challenges the notion that Fedon’s Rebellion was an outgrowth of the French or Haitian Revolutions; instead, the failure to reassert rights through familiar diplomatic strategies prompted white and free coloured Francophone Catholics in the island to turn to violence in 1795. Cet article va étudier comment le fait d’avoir été gouverné par différentes Couronnes a modelé les attentes d’inclusion parmi les planteurs catholiques francophones qui devinrent les sujets de l’Empire britannique après la guerre de Sept Ans. L’analyse de l’évolution de l’économie politique de la Grenade à la fin de la seconde moitié du dix-huitième siècle révèle que cette petite île des Caraïbes était le lieu de débats majeurs à propos de la participation politique, économique et religieuse. Les habitants de la Grenade connurent de nombreux changements de statut, d’abord en tant que sujets marginaux de la Couronne française, puis, après 1763, en tant qu’objet des expériences britanniques sur la gestion d’un empire de plus en plus diversifié. Tout au long de ces transitions impériales, les planteurs catholiques francophones de l’île comptèrent sur la diplomatie pour transformer le droit coutumier en privilèges politiques formels. Suite à la guerre d’Indépendance américaine, ces privilèges leur furent retirés pour la première fois. Interroger l’histoire coloniale de la Grenade sur une plus longue durée remet en question la notion que la Rébellion des Fédon était une conséquence des Révolutions française ou haïtienne ; en fait, l’incapacité à réaffirmer leurs droits au travers des stratégies diplomatiques usuelles a poussé les Catholiques blancs et libres de couleur de l’île à se tourner vers la violence en 1795.
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description	This article examines how the experience of being ruled by different Crowns shaped expectations for inclusion among francophone Catholic planters who became subjects of the British Empire after the Seven Years’ War. Attention to the evolving political economy of Grenada in the latter half of the eighteenth century reveals that this small Caribbean island was the site of significant debates over political, economic, and religious participation. Residents of Grenada underwent a number of changes in status, first as marginal subjects of the French Crown and, after 1763, as the focus of British experiments in ruling an increasingly diverse empire. Throughout these imperial transitions, francophone Catholic planters in the island relied on diplomacy to transform customary rights into formal political privileges. In the wake of the American War of Independence, these privileges were denied to them for the first time. Adopting a longer durée view of Grenada’s colonial history challenges the notion that Fedon’s Rebellion was an outgrowth of the French or Haitian Revolutions; instead, the failure to reassert rights through familiar diplomatic strategies prompted white and free coloured Francophone Catholics in the island to turn to violence in 1795.
author	Murphy, Tessa
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title	A Reassertion of Rights: Fedon’s Rebellion, Grenada, 1795-96
title_short	A Reassertion of Rights: Fedon’s Rebellion, Grenada, 1795-96
title_full	A Reassertion of Rights: Fedon’s Rebellion, Grenada, 1795-96
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