Who took part in the French Revolution and what role did they play?
- Created by: Alasdair
- Created on: 28-05-18 15:03
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- The French Revolution - international? Limitations? Other causes
- Slave rebellion in plantation colonies
- Haitian independence
- French Revolution's cry of 'rights' and 'liberty' looks hypocritical from slave plantation of Saint Domingue (later Haiti)
- 1791
- Slave revolt led by Touissant L'Ouverture
- 1794 - Constituent Assembly declares end of slavery
- 1804
- Haiti declares itself independent
- due to Napoleon rescinding to end slavery resulting in revolution
- Haiti declares itself independent
- Economic boom since 1730s
- production of sugar and irrigation systems
- Haiti reliant on slavery of Africans
- Bi-racial people outnumbered white people
- white people and black Africans worked land (entrapped in situation)
- French government placed reparations on people of Haiti
- new nation begins with enormous debt - must pay it in order to claim freedom
- Only successful slave revolt
- Beacon of what is possible to achieve
- Women's campaign against slavery
- Olampe Degouge
- executed for challenging Rights of Men that only applied to male-bodies
- Bombay Courier
- 1793
- Shipped bust of Mr Fox (radical English politician)
- Young cabin boy brought pamphlet of Thomas Payne's 'Rights of Man'
- banned in Britain, instrumental in France
- Came accidentally onto ship (used to wrap up pork pie)
- Black member of crew read pamphlet to crew
- crew declared ship a republic, all should be captains
- Put bust on deck -graffitied it
- Captain and crew overpowered insurgents
- Story may not be true
- Story affects thinking about Revolution
- Global network of ideas and actions
- Took place on slave Caribbean, frigates in muddle of seas, newspapers bound for Bombay,
- Possible causes of French Revolution
- Increasing literacy rates
- Printing press
- Circulation of ideas
- 1788 harvest failure
- Compromised majority of people in France
- Tax burden on poorest
- Clergy from foreign countries (10%)
- Owned 25% of land
- Right to take labour and tax their land
- Burden fell primarily on poorest
- Right to take labour and tax their land
- Owned 25% of land
- Tax on beer and bread
- Clergy from foreign countries (10%)
- Deregulation of grain prices
- High inflation
- Unreformed political structure
- Clergy and aristocracy riding on back of peasantry
- Expensive imperial warfare in India and North America
- Peasantry did not understand
- American War of Independence
- Echoes of it comes to France
- Spreading of rumours about people overthrowing tyrannical power
- Increasing literacy rates
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