The French Revolution simultaneously promised and threatened Caribbean colonists’ interests.

Evidence

Late in 1788 Louis XVI called for the election of representatives to the Estates General, an ancient consultative body, to help him resolve the urgent budget crisis the kingdom was facing in part because of the support it had lent to the American Revolution. … For those like him tied to the slave colonies of the Caribbean, the onset of Revolution was ripe with possibility but also with danger. In the Revolution the colonies might find redress against the despotic policies imposed on them. But there was also a chance that they would find the very foundation of their livelihood challenged, even destroyed. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 255

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: France’s own civilizing promises became weapons its colonial subjects could wield against it — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 545; French planters proposed handing the colony to Britain for protection.; Colonial critics could wield France’s own civilizing promises against it. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 545 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: France’s own civilizing promises became weapons its colonial subjects could wield against it — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 545; French planters proposed handing the colony to Britain for protection.; Colonial critics could wield France’s own civilizing promises against it. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 545 (+3 more)