Nommer l’esclave dans la Caraïbe, XVIIe–XIXe siècles

  • Cousseau, Vincent
Publication date
September 2016
Publisher
Belin

Abstract

International audienceThe naming of the slaves in the Caribbean of the modern period raises numerous questions, connected not only to the status of the names wich appear in the documentation but also to the diversity of the processes of attribution.The slave possesses, in principle, a unique and personal name which is not intended to be transmitted to his descendants. In the catholic church, the generalization of baptism comes along with a codified mechanism of naming and the christianization of the onomastic corpus, both for the African adults and for the Creole newborn children. Through godparenting, the slaves can benefit from a capacity of autonomous naming, even if it is partially forced by the religious authority and especially by the...

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