Slave wealth funded the very French Revolution that freed slaves
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 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Slave-trade fortunes funded the bourgeoisie who made the French Revolution — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 574; Slave trading rescued the Mediterranean bourgeoisie from eclipse by northern merchants
Related
- Slave-trade fortunes funded the bourgeoisie who made the French Revolution (similarity 0.95)
- Without slave revolt, the French Revolution would not have abolished slavery (similarity 0.88)
- Caribbean slave profits financed the very French bourgeoisie who launched the Revolution (similarity 0.81)
- France’s bourgeoisie arrived in 1789 already equipped to dominate culturally (similarity 0.81)
- Slave trading rescued the Mediterranean bourgeoisie from eclipse by northern merchants (similarity 0.80)
- The American bourgeois revolution featured slaveholding leaders and lagged France by a century (similarity 0.79)
- Slave-produced wealth funded the mother countries’ entire development (similarity 0.79)
- Slave-created colonial wealth financed British commercial and industrial growth (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Slave-trade fortunes funded the bourgeoisie who made the French Revolution
#expands(0.90) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 574