TY  - HOUR
CY  - Port-au-Prince, Haiti :
DA  - 1841.
ID  - 883279
KW  - Slavery
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N1  - Reproduction of the original from the Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
N1  - Published in Port-au-Prince in 1841, Le Cancanier was a short-lived satirical periodical of ten issues. At the time, Haiti was an independent nation-state without slavery, but the French West Indies remained slave colonies, and Le Cancanier's articles highlighted the absurdity of the debates among whites over abolition. For example, "Le Negrophobe" offered a portrait of a white man who "studied blacks in Paris where there are no blacks." In his simulated plantation, he found it easy to maintain his theories, but when he visited the colonies, he was confronted by real slaves who did not accept his theories with equanimity. "La Question de l'Abolition" was a fictional dialogue between a white man and a young mulatto slave. The white man was conducting research into the question of emancipation and claimed to have no prejudices, yet throughout the conversation he became increasingly derogatory and willfully misunderstood the slave's answers. Coming a generation after Haiti's revolution and freedom, such articles illustrated Haitians' views of those in Paris who were debating questions of slavery in the colonies. 
PB  - [s.n.],
PP  - Port-au-Prince, Haiti :
PY  - 1841.
T1  - Le Cancanier
TI  - Le Cancanier
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ER  -