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Research on the Abbé Grégoire collection

"Slave Trade (Execrable Human Traffick, or The Affectionate Slaves)" by Georges Morlan (1788), National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.

Gabriel Darriulat holds a doctorate in philosophy, specializing in political philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment. He will join the Collège de France on October 1, 2024 as part of an annual post-doctoral contract co-financed with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, to work on the Abbé Grégoire collection. This collection, which includes a large number of documents relating to the memory of the slave trade, slavery and their abolition, comes from Abbé Henri Grégoire (1750-1831) and is held at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. The research work, a presentation of which is available below, will be carried out under the joint responsibility of Pr Antoine Lilti and Olivier Bosc, Director of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal.