{"id":12730,"date":"2024-05-21T11:35:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T07:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/?post_type=dossier-documentaire&#038;p=12730"},"modified":"2024-05-21T11:35:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T07:35:31","slug":"the-slave-who-challenged-his-masters-furcy-born-free-before-the-law","status":"publish","type":"dossier-documentaire","link":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/dossiers-documentaires\/the-slave-who-challenged-his-masters-furcy-born-free-before-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe slave who challenged his masters : Furcy, born free before the law\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The third episode of Season 3 of S\u00e9ries Noires \u00e0 la Une: la presse et le crime (the press and crime), a podcast by RetroNews, the press website of the BnF (French National Library).<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/seriesnoires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/visuel-podcast-furcy-b-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/visuel-podcast-furcy-b-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/visuel-podcast-furcy-b-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/visuel-podcast-furcy-b-1-768x430.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo-one in France may be a slave\u201d: it was in the name of this basic principle of public law that the man referred to by certain journalists of the time as \u2018the slave Furcy\u2019 succeeded in claiming his freedom. The issue was indeed that of claiming his liberty and not his emancipation, since the question eventually raised was whether Furcy had ever really been a slave, even for one day?\u2019 Also, what was revealed by his being maintained a slave?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legal historian J\u00e9r\u00e9my Boutier is interviewed by Thomas Baumgartner to discuss the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fd8dbef225deb418e09b54ff542f9655\" style=\"color:#1046ea\"><a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/seriesnoires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Listen to the podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1651,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","types-dossiers":[44],"class_list":["post-12730","dossier-documentaire","type-dossier-documentaire","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","types-dossiers-podcast-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dossier-documentaire\/12730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dossier-documentaire"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dossier-documentaire"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"types-dossiers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-dossiers?post=12730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}