Papers by Anthony Di Lorenzo
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Oct 15, 2020
So many people helped make this project possible. My family and friends endlessly encouraged and ... more So many people helped make this project possible. My family and friends endlessly encouraged and supported my efforts. My parents, especially, instilled in me the values that laid the foundations for my path. Teachers along the way made an enormous
La Révolution française
Avec l’avènement de la République à l’été 1792, la France adopte et transforme l’idée républicain... more Avec l’avènement de la République à l’été 1792, la France adopte et transforme l’idée républicaine qui s’est développée de part et d’autre de l’Atlantique révolutionnaire depuis le dix-septième siècle. Dans cette séquence, le décret du 26 août 1792 est un message adressé à l’ensemble du monde, mais plus particulièrement aux héritiers de la tradition républicaine anglaise qui nouaient ensemble la défense de la liberté avec l’antiesclavagisme. Le regard décentré de ces républicains anglophones expatriés en France permet de voir que l’avènement de la « République de France » a bien été perçue comme une cosmopolitique républicaine atlantique, notamment dans son volet antiesclavagiste. Cette dernière provoque une réaction conservatrice dans le monde anglophone, accélérée dans le contexte des French Wars et surtout après le décret d’abolition de l’esclavage de 1794, terminant ce « moment républicain » universaliste et imposant une conception plus restreinte, « nationaliste » et autoritaire, de la république. With the advent of the Republic during the summer of 1792, France took part in and transformed the republican experience, which had been developing on both sides of the revolutionary Atlantic since the seventeenth century. In this sequence, the decree of 26 August 1792 was conceived as a message addressed to the entire world, and perhaps more particularly to the heirs of the English republican tradition who articulated the defence of liberty with abolitionism. The point of view of these expatriated republicans in France shows that the advent of the ‘Republic of France’ was indeed perceived as an Atlantic republican cosmopolitics, especially its anti-slavery component. This in turn rapidly provoked a conservative backlash on both sides of the Atlantic, strengthened by the French Wars and particularly after the abolition decree of 1794, ending this universalist ‘republican moment’, replacing it with a narrow “nationalist” and authoritarian conception of the republic.
La Révolution française
This article compares and contrasts the conceptualization and transnational circulation of abolit... more This article compares and contrasts the conceptualization and transnational circulation of abolitionist ideas in the mid-seventeenth century English Revolution and the late-eighteenth-century “Age of Atlantic Revolutions.” Our method stresses both continuity and change across time and Atlantic space in the multiple efforts republicans made to eradicate human bondage. In both the mid-seventeenth century and the late eighteenth century, major political revolutions informed the ideas and actions of those who opposed slavery. As revolutionary fervor spread in the late eighteenth century, conservatives reacted with repressive attempts to contain the radicalism that was spilling over into the closely guarded domain of economic enslavement.
The Journal of Popular Culture, 2017
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Papers by Anthony Di Lorenzo