{"id":5158,"date":"2021-05-31T08:52:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T06:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/?p=5158"},"modified":"2021-05-31T08:52:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T06:52:43","slug":"homage-to-the-historian-hubert-gerbeau-1937-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/homage-to-the-historian-hubert-gerbeau-1937-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Homage to the historian Hubert Gerbeau (1937-2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The historian Hubert Gerbeau, a pioneer in the field of research on slavery in Reunion, died on 3rd April 2021. The Departmental Council of Reunion pays tribute to him.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/hubert-gerbeau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4826\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/hubert-gerbeau.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"815\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/hubert-gerbeau.jpg 815w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/hubert-gerbeau-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/hubert-gerbeau-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Hubert Gerbeau, historian, an eminent specialist on the history of slavery on Bourbon island, has died. On a personal level and on behalf of all the elected members of the Departmental Council, I wish to pay tribute to his memory and communicate our heartfelt condolences to his family.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At the University of Reunion, where he contributed to the intellectual development of several generations of students, and even after leaving the University, during his entire teaching career and after retiring, Hubert Gerbeau worked unceasingly, carrying out research and publishing documents with the aim of widening the knowledge of slavery on our island.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There is no doubt that his pioneering, rigorous scientific work, reflected in his many publications and his thesis on slavery on Bourbon in the 19th and 20th centuries, presented in 2005, will remain a reference.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Department Council had a number of rich and open discussions with Hubert Gerbeau. As a result, after being a member of the organising committee for the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in 1998, in 2018 he accepted the title of honorary member of the Scientific Committee for the future Vill\u00e8le museum, Museum of the estate and of slavery.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The digital portal \u2018History and memories of slavery in Reunion\u2019, to which he contributed, now pays tribute to Hubert Gerbeau.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<strong>Cyrille Melchior,<\/strong><br \/>\nPresident of the Departmental Council of Reunion<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Read the article by Hubert Gerbeau published on the website<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/documentaires\/the-slave-trade\/the-illegal-slave-trade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Illicit slave trade on Bourbon island in the 19th century<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Bibliography:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Scientific works:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Martin Luther King<\/em> \/ Hubert Gerbeau. &#8211; Paris : \u00c9ditions universitaires, 1968. &#8211; 166 p., 20 cm<\/p>\n<p><em>Les esclaves noirs : pour une histoire du silence<\/em> \/ Hubert Gerbeau. &#8211; Paris : A. Balland, impr. 1970. &#8211; 1 vol. (216 p.) ; 23 cm<\/p>\n<p><em>Br\u00e8ves r\u00e9flexions sur le sort de la femme esclave \u00e0 l&#8217;\u00eele de La R\u00e9union au 19e si\u00e8cle<\/em> \/ Hubert Gerbeau. &#8211; Saint-Denis : [s.n.], 1973. &#8211; 1 vol. (19 p.) ; 30 cm<\/p>\n<p><em>Des minorit\u00e9s mal connues : esclaves indiens et malais des Mascareignes au XIX\u00e8me si\u00e8cle<\/em> \/ Hubert Gerbeau. &#8211; [Aix-en-Provence] : IHPOM, 1978. &#8211; 1 vol. (84 f.) ; 30 cm<\/p>\n<p><em>La traite esclavagiste dans l&#8217;oc\u00e9an Indien : probl\u00e8mes pos\u00e9s \u00e0 l&#8217;historien, recherches \u00e0 entreprendre<\/em> \/ Hubert Gerbeau.<br \/>\n&#8211; [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1978. &#8211; P. 193-217 ; 30 cm<\/p>\n<p><em>Presse et esclavage \u00e0 l&#8217;\u00eele de La R\u00e9union au temps de l&#8217;\u00e9mancipation<\/em> \/ Hubert Gerbeau ; [textes r\u00e9unis par]Jean Antoine Gili et Ralph Schor . &#8211; Paris : publications de la Sorbonne, 1988. &#8211; P. 41-49 : couv. ill. en noir et en coul. ; 30 cm<\/p>\n<p><em>Les esclaves noirs : pour une histoire du silence : 1848-1998, 150e anniversaire de l&#8217;abolition de l&#8217;esclavage, \u00cele de la R\u00e9union<\/em> \/ Hubert Gerbeau. &#8211; [Saint-Denis] : Conseil g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la R\u00e9union ; Saint-Andr\u00e9 : Oc\u00e9an \u00e9d., 1998. &#8211; 195 p. ; 22 cm. &#8211; (Collection 20 d\u00e9sanm)<\/p>\n<p><em>De l&#8217;esclavage<\/em> \/ Hubert Gerbeau, Issa Asgarally, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Reverzy. &#8211; Saint-Denis (La R\u00e9union) : Grand Oc\u00e9an, 2005.<br \/>\n&#8211; 1 vol. (104 p.) ; 21 cm<\/p>\n<p><em>L&#8217;esclavage et son ombre : l&#8217;\u00eele de Bourbon aux XIXe et XXe si\u00e8cles<\/em> \/ Hubert Gerbeau ; sous la direction de G\u00e9rard Chastagnaret. &#8211; Universit\u00e9 de Provence 2005. &#8211; Th\u00e8se de doctorat d&#8217;\u00c9tat Histoire<\/p>\n<p><em>Les esclaves noirs : pour une histoire du silence<\/em> \/ Hubert Gerbeau. &#8211; Paris : les Indes savantes, impr. 2013, cop. 2013.<br \/>\n&#8211; 1 vol. (203 p.) : couv. ill. ; 24 cm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Literary works:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Sw\u00e8djana<\/em> (le fou d&#8217;Afrique). &#8211; Paris : Flammarion, 1980. &#8211; 157 p.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nostalgies de couleurs :<\/em> suite de textes \/ sur des dessins de Rapha\u00ebl S\u00e9gura ; pr\u00e9face de Gilbert Aubry. &#8211; Saint-Andr\u00e9 (R\u00e9union) : Oc\u00e9an Editions, 1990. &#8211; 108 p.<\/p>\n<p><em>Visions et visages :<\/em> suite de textes accompagnant l\u2019exposition de 40 tableaux de Jean-Jacques Martin organis\u00e9e dans les locaux du Port Autonome de Marseille (2001).<\/p>\n<p><em>Le Voyageur<\/em> : conte. &#8211;\u00a0 In La Corne de Brume, n\u00b0 2, 2003, p. 70-84.<\/p>\n<p><em>Noc<\/em>. &#8211;\u00a0 Paris :\u00a0 Editions Le Bretteur, 2004. &#8211; 228 p.<\/p>\n<p><em>LIA. D\u2019un paradis l\u2019autre<\/em>. &#8211;\u00a0 Paris, Les Indes savantes,\u00a0 2006. &#8211;\u00a0 352 p. &#8211; (Collection du cannibale)<\/p>\n<p><em> La N\u00e9gresse de paradis<\/em>. &#8211;\u00a0 Paris : Les Indes savantes, 2011. &#8211;\u00a0 216 p. &#8211; .\u00a0 (Collection du cannibale)<\/p>\n<p><em>Foutu foot<\/em>. &#8211; Saint-Denis : \u00c9dilivre, DL 2015. &#8211; 1 vol. (107 p.) ; 21 cm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications on the Internet:<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/classiques.uqac.ca\/contemporains\/gerbeau_hubert\/gerbeau_hubert.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/classiques.uqac.ca\/contemporains\/gerbeau_hubert\/gerbeau_hubert.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>L&#8217;Oc\u00e9an Indien n\u2019est pas l\u2019Atlantique. La traite ill\u00e9gale \u00e0 Bourbon au XIXe si\u00e8cle<\/em>.\u201d Un article publi\u00e9 dans Outre-Mers, revue de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 fran\u00e7aise d\u2019Histoire d\u2019Outre-mer, n\u00b0 336-337, d\u00e9cembre 2002, Paris, p. 79-108 (coordination du dossier th\u00e9matique \u201cTraites et esclavages: vieux probl\u00e8mes, nouvelles perspectives ?\u201d par Olivier P\u00e9tr\u00e9-Grenouilleau, p. 1-282).<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Maladie et sant\u00e9 aux Mascareignes: une histoire aux prises avec l&#8217;id\u00e9ologie<\/em>\u201d. Un article publi\u00e9 dans l&#8217;ouvrage sous la direction de Jean-Luc Bonniol, Gerry L&#8217;\u00c9tang, Jean Barnab\u00e9 et Rapha\u00ebl Confiant, Au visiteur lumineux. Des \u00eeles cr\u00e9oles aux soci\u00e9t\u00e9s plurielles. M\u00e9langes offerts \u00e0 Jean Benoist, pp. 557-574. Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe: Ibis Rouge \u00c9ditions, GEREC-F\/Presses universitaires cr\u00e9oles, 2000, 716 pp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>La famille Mabit dans les Hauts de la R\u00e9union. Une contribution au mythe insulaire<\/em>\u201d. Un article publi\u00e9 dans De la tradition \u00e0 la post-modernit\u00e9. Hommage \u00e0 Jean Poirier, pp. 257-265. Textes r\u00e9unis par Andr\u00e9 Car\u00e9nini et Jean-Pierre Jardel. Paris: Les Presses universitaires de France, 1996, 1re \u00e9dition, 487 pp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>LES INDIENS DES MASCAREIGNES. Simples jalons pour l&#8217;histoire d&#8217;une r\u00e9ussite (XVIle-XXe si\u00e8cle<\/em>)\u201d. Un article publi\u00e9 dans l&#8217;Annuaire des pays de l&#8217;Oc\u00e9an indien, XII, 1990-1991, pp. 15-45. \u00c9ditions du CNRS \/ Presses universitaires d&#8217;Aix-Marseilles, 1992.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>La libert\u00e9 des enfants de Dieu. Quelques aspects des relations des esclaves et de l&#8217;\u00c9glise \u00e0 la R\u00e9unio<\/em>n\u201d. Un article publi\u00e9 dans Probl\u00e8mes religieux et minorit\u00e9s en Oc\u00e9an indien. Table ronde IHPOM, CHEAM, CERSOI. S\u00e9nanque, mai 1980, pp. 45-95. Institut d&#8217;histoire des pays d&#8217;outre-mer, Universit\u00e9 de Provence. \u00c9tudes et documents, no 14, 1981.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Des minorit\u00e9s mal connues: esclaves indiens et malais des Mascareignes au XIXe si\u00e8cle<\/em>\u201d. Table ronde sur \u201cMigrations, minorit\u00e9s et \u00e9changes en Oc\u00e9an Indien, XIXe-XXe si\u00e8cle\u201d, S\u00e9nanque, 1978, \u00c9tudes et Documents, Aix-en-Provence, IHPOM (Institut d&#8217;Histoire des Pays d\u2019Outre-Mer), Universit\u00e9 de Provence, n\u00b0 11, 1979, p. 160-242.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The historian Hubert Gerbeau, a pioneer in the field of research on slavery in Reunion, died on 3rd April 2021. The Departmental Council of Reunion pays tribute to him. &nbsp; &nbsp; \u201cHubert Gerbeau, historian, an eminent specialist on the history of slavery on Bourbon island, has died. On a personal level and on behalf of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/homage-to-the-historian-hubert-gerbeau-1937-2021\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homage to the historian Hubert Gerbeau (1937-2021)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5158","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\/5158","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=5158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}