Introduction: Beyond Atlantic History

Across Oceans and Revolutions: Law and Slavery in French Saint‐Domingue and Beyond

“…Legal scholars and historians alike have often observed that the origins of US and modern French political structures lie in the same Enlightenment‐era intellectual soil (Albertone and Francesco 2009). They cite, for example, the impact of French writers such as Montesquieu on the constitutional framing of the United States (Shklar 1987; Carrese 2003; LaCroix 2010).…”