CAS HI 266 Lecture 5: HI266 Class Notes, Lecture 5
30 Jul 2018
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Colonial policy: an area of failure: middle classes and elite did okay during the war. Middle classes benefited from the surge of imports during wartime. Rents went up along with other rising prices: the poor suffered, napoleon(cid:495)s civil code just the oldest son. Property spread equally in inheritance among children rather than. Required equal distribution caused fragmentation: deterioration of living standards in cities, napoleonic era did create more employment, people like him despite the suffering. France is expanding and they like that he is a military hero: war took place also in french colonies (caribbean, saint domingue produced 40% of sugar and 60% of coffee consumed by france. Free men of color (cid:523)(cid:494)mulattos(cid:499)(cid:524), slaves, poor whites, and wealthy landowners made up the population: revolution of saint domingue. Uprising of the freemen of color for the right to vote. 1791 decided to give a limited amount of freemen to vote.
