Lettres de Colons

Debien, Gabriel, Lettres de Colons, Université de Dakar; Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines; publication de la section d'Histoire n° 7; Dakar 1964.

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For half a century one of the Caribbean's leading historians, Gabriel Debien died in Paris on May 1, 1990. Born in Pleumartin in the Vienne, and educated in Poitiers, he spent most of his teaching career abroad. His first post, at the University of Cairo (1932-56), came to a dramatic end amidst the Suez crisis. He then taught at the Universities of Dakar (1957-67), where he set up the history department, and Nantes (1967- 72). His articles and books, numbering more than two hundred and fifty, include studies of French agriculture, missionaries in Africa, and immigration to Canada, but most were devoted to the French West Indies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He will be remembered as the preeminent historian of the slave plantation.

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