The French Revolution was a bourgeois revolution, and the basis of bourgeois wealth was the slave trade and the slave plantations in the colonies. Let there be no mistake about this. “Sad irony of human history,” says Jaures, “the fortunes created at Bordeaux, at Nantes by the slave-trade gave to the bourgeoisie that pride which […]
Monthly Archives: May 2014
France, the West Indies, and the History of Slavery
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Tagged 1700s, 1793, abolition, archives, Haiti, history, Saint-Domingue, slavery
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