HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Individual And Group Rights, Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines
24 Oct 2017
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Consequences from the revolution in america and france (22/09/17) Had immediate and unintended consequences to other parts of the world. Important example was what happened i the colony of saint dominque the french half of island. The french engaged in the transportation of enslaved africans to the caribbean to work on sugarcane plantations. In saint dominigue, france"s largest and most profitable colony in the carribean: 35,000 whites, 500,000 slaves, lived over 28,000 free people of colour some owned slaves but had practical no political or civil rights. The outburst of revolutionary activity in france led to unrest. After proclamation of the declaration of the rights of man and the citizen, conflict broke out between the white plantation owners or planters as they are usually called and the free poc in the colony. In 1790, representations of the free poc petitioned the french national assembly to extend the rights enshrined in the declarations of the rights of man.
