This panel seeks to provide a textured history of slaves and free people of color in eighteenth-century France while exploring French domestic society through an imperial lens. From the vantagepoint of their ongoing research projects, panellists engage with the themes of Miranda Spieler’s new book, Slaves in Paris (Harvard, 2025). While seeking to reconstruct the experiences of non-white people in France and assess the domestic impact of colonial slavery, contributors will reveal the diversity of individual experiences as glimpsed through varied archives and elaborated by distinctive methodological approaches. Themes of the four papers include policing practices, spaces and modalities of resistance, modes of unfreedom, and the prominence of slave owners in Enlightenment culture.