Les Origines des Esclaves des Antilles [Extraits du Bulletin de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire, 1961 - 1967]

Debien, Gabriel, Jacques Houdaille, R. Massio et Robert Richard, Les Origines des Esclaves des Antilles, Extraits du Bulletin de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire, 1961 - 1967

voir aussi: Les origines des esclaves antillais: IV.

Hispanic American Historical Review:

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.