Title: L'affaire de l'esclave Furcy
Description: Fictional account based on documents found in 2005, about a slave named Furcy on the Île Bourbon (now Reunion), who at age 31 legally sought his freedom; the trial lasted for 27 years and concluded in Paris in 1843.
Subjects: Slaves, Legal status, laws, Fiction, Slaveholders
Places: Réunion
People: Furcy slave (b. 1786)