Paul Cheney
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226079356
- eISBN:
- 9780226411774
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226411774.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter provides a detailed account of the means by which the Ferron de la Ferronnays family, through their manager Pierre-Jacques Corbier, attempted to keep their Cul de Sac sugar plantation ...
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This chapter provides a detailed account of the means by which the Ferron de la Ferronnays family, through their manager Pierre-Jacques Corbier, attempted to keep their Cul de Sac sugar plantation working throughout the revolutionary decades. It recounts the collaboration of this family with the French, British, and Haitian governments as the Ferron de la Ferronnays tried to keep its fortune together during their period of self-imposed exile from the French Revolution. It also recounts the Ferronnays' participation in the indemnity of 1825, which Haiti paid to France for recognition of its independence. The payment of the indemnity--including the way it touched the lives of successive generations of the Ferronnays family, their managers the Corbiers, as well as the slaves owned by these two families, illustrate the persistence well into the nineteenth century of the old regime plantation complex.Less
This chapter provides a detailed account of the means by which the Ferron de la Ferronnays family, through their manager Pierre-Jacques Corbier, attempted to keep their Cul de Sac sugar plantation working throughout the revolutionary decades. It recounts the collaboration of this family with the French, British, and Haitian governments as the Ferron de la Ferronnays tried to keep its fortune together during their period of self-imposed exile from the French Revolution. It also recounts the Ferronnays' participation in the indemnity of 1825, which Haiti paid to France for recognition of its independence. The payment of the indemnity--including the way it touched the lives of successive generations of the Ferronnays family, their managers the Corbiers, as well as the slaves owned by these two families, illustrate the persistence well into the nineteenth century of the old regime plantation complex.
