Hutchins Center: "Neutrality, Commercial Circulations and Legal Identities in the Revolutionary Caribbean: Between Saint-Domingue and the United States" | Manuel Covo

Date: 

Monday, March 9, 2015, 5:00pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall, Basement Conferece Room, 35 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA

How did the revolutionary age affect commercial circulations in a trans-imperial region such as the Caribbean? By examining the trade between the United States and the French Antilles – particularly Saint-Domingue – this paper shows that transnational networks of trade adapted to the ever-changing legal framework of that commerce. Yet these practices increasingly conflicted with the ambitions of the revolutionary states to control migrants’ mobility. If merchants negotiated their many legal identities with French, British, and American authorities, they incidentally increased international tensions in a context of imperial rivalries.

 For a copy of the pre-circulated paper email Hannah Callaway: hbcallaw@fas.harvard.edu

 Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Afro-Latin American Research Institute

 Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Free and open to the public.