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Mohammed Aïssaoui salutes the slave Furcy ... A

Remember that legally, during slavery, the negro n ' was a well a furniture as well as the chest or shoes. All those studied the " property law " know that the owner of a cabinet has the power to use, dispose as he sees fit. It has the usus , the abusus and fructus (the right to grow). We also know that slavery was abolished in 1794 but restored a few years later, in 1804, by Bonaparte. Yet we must "beware" of a slave who learned to read and write, to reason, therefore, to dissect the words of the law of master. Thus did the slave Furcy reckless. He is thirty-one years in 1817, the island of Reunion (then Bourbon Island) when he decides to go to the District Court of Saint-Denis . It is for a prosecutor to achieve recognition of its status as a freedman which he denied and which, de jure would have released from slavery. Attorney (Gilbert Boucher) listened to this request and found it foolhardy in law. The case goes then to the Court, made headlines. A cabinet who dared to claim her right? Unheard of!

The trial dragged on for nearly three decades. Attorney left the poor feathers while slavery and economics were challenged with this request. After its success, the slave Furcy sees the collapse of slavery. A man whose historical dimension could not pass unnoticed. It is without doubt that humanism and the need to place the individual at the heart of history that led Mohammed Aïssaoui to pay tribute to this exceptional being.

The author of the Affair The Slave Furcy is literary journalist with Le Figaro. Using his flair as a writer, he knew we retrace the facts while avoiding the pitfalls of compiling too often seen in books of this kind. For him, everything was triggered the March 16, 2005, when the archives of "Deal" had been auctioned in Paris at the Hotel Drouot. The public discovered handwritten letters, accounts, transcripts, pleadings ... Aïssaoui , who was present, Not content to this auction. He nosed patiently records the BNF, the departmental archives of the Meeting, and his book seems like the novel of our wanderings and our blindness. Here there is life, survival, the belief that freedom has no color. It is ultimately the history of our humanity confiscated by a racial theory of scales. A book to read urgent in these times when we fill your ears with extreme theories ...

Read Mohammed Aïssaoui , The Case of the slave Furcy , Gallimard, 2010 .