In the 1740s, Bordeaux developed some of the first modern theories of racial difference, even as the city profited from the slave trade.
Christy Pichichero
Christy Pichichero is associate professor of French and history at George Mason University and a specialist of the early modern French empire, race, and African diasporic studies. She is the author of The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon (Cornell, 2017) and her work has been featured on NPR, NBC News, Forbes, and The Hill. 