{"id":11115,"date":"2023-09-26T06:57:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T04:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/?p=11115"},"modified":"2023-09-26T06:57:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T04:57:59","slug":"in-the-spotlight-the-church-the-state-and-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/in-the-spotlight-the-church-the-state-and-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>In the spotlight<\/em><br\/> The Church, the State and Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Families sold as \u201cnational property\u201d on Reunion island during the French Revolution<\/h1>\n<h4>An article written by Nathan Elliot Marvin, historian at University of Arkansas at Little Rock.<\/h4>\n<h2>In 1789, the Constitutive Assembly in Paris took possession of all property belonging to the Catholic Church in France. In the colonies, such property included thousands of slaves living on estates belonging to or managed by religious bodies.<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11104\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11104 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1984.07.04.14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1984.07.04.14.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1984.07.04.14-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1984.07.04.14-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1984.07.04.14-1024x674.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Album de la R\u00e9union. Local church of Saint-Leu. Louis Antoine Roussin. 1880. Lithograph. <br \/>Collection of L\u00e9on Dierx art gallery, inv. 1984.07.04.14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1793, on Reunion island, over 300 slaves owned by Lazarist priests were declared to be \u201cnational property\u201d and sold at public auctions under the direction of a civil commissioner for the First Republic of France.<\/p>\n<p>The present article examines the experiences of these persons, focusing on their daily lives in \u201ccurial estates\u201d preceding the period of the French Revolution, their acts of resistance and their efforts to maintain family links despite being forcibly sold.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/documentaires\/slavery\/the-church-and-slavery\/the-church-the-state-and-slavery-families-sold-as-national-property-on-reunion-island-during-the-french-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #522a2a;\">Read the article<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families sold as \u201cnational property\u201d on Reunion island during the French Revolution An article written by Nathan Elliot Marvin, historian at University of Arkansas at Little Rock. In 1789, the Constitutive Assembly in Paris took possession of all property belonging to the Catholic Church in France. In the colonies, such property included thousands of slaves &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/in-the-spotlight-the-church-the-state-and-slavery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<em>In the spotlight<\/em><br \/> The Church, the State and Slavery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}