{"id":77576,"date":"2025-07-31T10:40:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/?p=77576"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:40:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:40:52","slug":"napoleon-et-lesclavage-en-finir-avec-les-faux-semblants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/napoleon-et-lesclavage-en-finir-avec-les-faux-semblants\/","title":{"rendered":"Napol\u00e9on et l\u2019esclavage : en finir avec les faux-semblants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px\"><b><i>Deux si\u00e8cles apr\u00e8s, la gloire napol\u00e9onienne continue de briller, mais son ombre reste immense. Derri\u00e8re l\u2019\u00e9pop\u00e9e imp\u00e9riale se cache un crime souvent minimis\u00e9\u202f: le r\u00e9tablissement de l\u2019esclavage en 1802. Ni Jos\u00e9phine ni les circonstances ne peuvent servir d\u2019alibi. Cette d\u00e9cision fut celle d\u2019un homme, motiv\u00e9 par une id\u00e9ologie raciale et un projet colonial, qui co\u00fbta la libert\u00e9 et la vie \u00e0 des milliers d\u2019hommes et de femmes.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>En mai 1802, Napol\u00e9on r\u00e9tablit l\u2019esclavage dans les colonies o\u00f9 la Convention l\u2019avait aboli en 1794. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Il pr\u00e9tendit plus tard, \u00e0 Sainte-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, avoir c\u00e9d\u00e9 aux pressions des colons et \u00e0 l\u2019influence de Jos\u00e9phine. L\u2019argument ne tient pas\u202f: l\u2019esclavage n\u2019avait jamais \u00e9t\u00e9 aboli en Martinique et Jos\u00e9phine montrait moins de pr\u00e9jug\u00e9s raciaux que son mari.<\/p>\n<p>Le r\u00e9tablissement fut un choix personnel, motiv\u00e9 par la volont\u00e9 de restaurer l\u2019ordre colonial et par une n\u00e9grophobie assum\u00e9e. Les instructions donn\u00e9es \u00e0 Leclerc \u00e0 Saint-Domingue, la r\u00e9pression sanglante en Guadeloupe par Richepance et le Code civil diff\u00e9renci\u00e9 pour Blancs et affranchis s\u2019inscrivent dans une politique coh\u00e9rente\u202f: maintenir la hi\u00e9rarchie raciale et neutraliser toute autonomie noire.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><i>En Guadeloupe, l\u2019explosion de Matouba au cri de \u00ab\u202fVivre libre ou mourir\u202f\u00bb illustre le prix pay\u00e9. Aujourd\u2019hui encore, la m\u00e9moire de Delgr\u00e8s, Ignace ou Solitude reste marginale. Reconna\u00eetre la responsabilit\u00e9 pleine et enti\u00e8re de Napol\u00e9on, c\u2019est choisir une m\u00e9moire nationale enfin compl\u00e8te et honn\u00eate. <\/i><\/b><b style=\"font-size: 14px;color: #333333\">Gdc<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Deux si\u00e8cles apr\u00e8s, la gloire napol\u00e9onienne continue de briller, mais son ombre reste immense. Derri\u00e8re l\u2019\u00e9pop\u00e9e imp\u00e9riale se cache un crime souvent minimis\u00e9\u202f: le r\u00e9tablissement de l\u2019esclavage en 1802. Ni Jos\u00e9phine ni les circonstances ne peuvent servir d\u2019alibi. Cette d\u00e9cision fut celle d\u2019un homme, motiv\u00e9 par une id\u00e9ologie raciale et un projet colonial, qui<\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_robots":null,"rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":""},"categories":[1780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-repere"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}