"Botany, Race, and Gender in Enlightenment Saint-Domingue and Guyane"

OI Colloquium with Meghan Roberts and Laurie Wood In 1767, the free woman of color Charlotte Dugée absconded from the Patris botanical expedition, for which she was a French state-appointed specimen illustrator, into the forests of Guyane, never to be heard from again. Unlike typical Enlightenment scientific practitioners – overwhelmingly white, male, Europeans – Dugée had been born in… Read More

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