Slave-trade fortunes funded the bourgeoisie who made the French Revolution
Evidence
The slave-trade and slavery were the economic basis of the French Revolution. “Sad irony of human history,” comments Jaures. “The fortunes created at Bordeaux, at Nantes, by the slave-trade, gave to the bourgeoisie that pride which needed liberty and contributed to human emancipation.” Nantes was the center of the slave-trade… . Nearly all the industries which developed in France during the eighteenth century had their origin in goods or commodities destined either for the coast of Guinea or for America … upon the success or failure of the traffic everything else depended. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 574
The slave-trade and slavery were the economic basis of the French Revolution. “Sad irony of human history,” comments Jaures. “The fortunes created at Bordeaux, at Nantes, by the slave-trade, gave to the bourgeoisie that pride which needed liberty and contributed to human emancipation.” Nantes was the center of the slave-trade… . Nearly all the industries which developed in France during the eighteenth century had their origin in goods or commodities destined either for the coast of Guinea or for America … upon the success or failure of the traffic everything else depended. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 574
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s Interest topic of small acts of decorum and to Eric Williams’s ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ thesis on slave wealth funding European industrial capitalism. — connects to: Du Bois concluded slavery and capitalism were systemically linked and periphery drove revolution; Slavery was a critical foundation for early capitalism — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 584; Slave wealth funded the very French Revolution that freed slaves (+5 more)
- corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 574