This essay suggests a colonial and Enlightenment genealogy for racial ideas more commonly associated with the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Nelson exposes unfulfilled pseudo-eugenic plans, focused on the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue, in which racial engineering through controlled "breeding" was seen as a solution to challenges to stability after the Seven Years' War.
...MoreDescription Claims that there was “a colonial and Enlightenment genealogy for racial ideas more commonly associated with the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.... Focused on the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue.” (from the abstract)
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