Petites affaires : pacotille commerce and the intimate networks of free women of colour in the eighteenth-century french caribbean

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This article introduces the pacotille as a practice of long-distance trade which allowed otherwise "private" individuals, especially women who neither ran a merchant house nor a shop, to participate in the expanding global economies of the eighteenth century. Historical records like those of Ursule provide insight into pacotille-based or -related trading practices which relied heavily on intimate networks. Apart from this aspect, with its political and memory-cultural implications3, the study of women`s pacotille trade and pacotille trading networks allows the authors to approach women of highly different backgrounds as knowledgeable . . .

 



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