La santé navale et l'Atlantique comme champs d'expérimentation : les «hôpitaux flottants»

The organisations which were founded in the last quarter of the 18th Century in Philadelphia, London and Paris to campaign against the slave system in the American colonies were in close contact with each other. Their first aim was the abolition of the slave trade, but also the ending of slavery itself, at least in the United States. In fact, well before they took an institutional form, links had been forged between individual abolitionists — whose number grew throughout the century — in the great slaving nations. However, this sort of International5 developed very unequally in the three nations, because of significant differences in their political contexts. This 'Abolitionist International3 did not of itself obtain concrete results, but the ties thus created lasted, and in the long run they played a role in the later abolitions of the 19th Century.Gainot Bernard. La santé navale et l'Atlantique comme champs d'expérimentation : les «hôpitaux flottants». In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°33, 2001. L'Atlantique, sous la direction de Marcel Dorigny . pp. 165-182