Jean-Baptiste Carrier in a Slave-Trading City: The Nantes Atrocities of 1793 and Atlantic World Violence
Mason is a historian of the French Revolution who studies the transformation of French political culture in the last decade of the eighteenth century. She is the author of Singing the Revolution: Popular Culture and Revolutionary Politics in Paris, 1789-1799 (Cornell UP, 1996) and her latest book The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals came out in 2022 with Yale University Press. There, Mason rethinks the final years of the French Revolution through a controversial trial of 1797 to explain why France’s first republic collapsed less than a decade after its founding. She has written extensively on the revolutionary period and is an editor of Imaginaries. On Monday, she will speak about her latest project which explores the revolutionary terror and atrocities committed in Nantes under Jean-Baptiste Carrier (1793).
All welcome- this event is free, but booking is required.
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