Without slave revolt, the French Revolution would not have abolished slavery

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: Emancipation won through French alliance was preserved only by defeating France; Slave insurgents gained emancipation by allying with the French Republic; French alliance won emancipation but defeating Napoleon’s army preserved it (+13 more)

Related

• Slave wealth funded the very French Revolution that freed slaves (similarity 0.88)
• Slave-trade fortunes funded the bourgeoisie who made the French Revolution (similarity 0.88)
• Slave insurgents gained emancipation by allying with the French Republic (similarity 0.83)
• The French Revolution would not have ended slavery without the Haitian revolt (similarity 0.82)
• Caribbean slave profits financed the very French bourgeoisie who launched the Revolution (similarity 0.80)
• The slave revolt’s violence superseded French abolitionists’ moderation and ended their group (similarity 0.79)
• Initial slave insurgents sought freedom within the French empire, not independence (similarity 0.79)
• The American bourgeois revolution featured slaveholding leaders and lagged France by a century (similarity 0.79)
• Slave rebellion, not moral reform, forced British emancipation (similarity 0.78)
• Slave insurgents, not French commissioners, drove Saint-Domingue’s transformation. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Liberty itself, not outside instigators, incited the slaves to revolt #complicates (0.60)
• Slave rebellion in Jamaica forced British abolition from above #corroborates (0.60)
• Slave-trade fortunes funded the bourgeoisie who made the French Revolution #expands (0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 574
• Bonaparte’s May 1802 decree restored slavery in French colonies. #contradicts (0.40)