'The First Vigilante: Natural Law, Slavery, and the Killer Cobbler' Lecture
You are invited to join the Department of French and Francophone studies for a lecture by Yann Robert, from the University of Illinois at Chicago on "The First Vigilante: Natural Law, Slavery, and the Killer Cobbler."
For more information, please contact rlementheo@brynmawr.edu.
This event is presented by the Department of French and Francophone Studies, co-sponsored by the Class of 1902 Lecture Fund and the Origins of Freedom 360 Cluster.
Vigilantism is widely regarded as a uniquely American phenomenon, originating in the American Revolution and Frontier. Yet the first story about a modern vigilante appeared decades earlier in France. This 1730 tale of a killer cobbler leads me to propose a new genealogy of vigilantism, linking its birth and raison d'être to natural law theory and slavery.
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