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The Death of the French Atlantic - Trade, War, and Slavery in the Age of Revolution (Hardcover)
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The Death of the French Atlantic - Trade, War, and Slavery in the Age of Revolution (Hardcover)
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The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and
irreversible decline of France's Atlantic empire in the Age of
Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the
country's competitive position as an Atlantic commercial power. The
first was war, especially war at sea against France's most
consistent enemy and commercial rival in the eighteenth century,
Great Britain. A series of colonial wars, from the Seven Years' War
and the War of American Independence to the Revolutionary and
Napoleonic Wars did much to drive France out of the North Atlantic.
The second was anti-slavery and the rise of a new moral conscience
which challenged the right of Europeans to own slaves or to
sacrifice the freedom of others to pursue national economic
advantage. The third was the French Revolution itself, which not
only raised French hopes of achieving the Rights of Man for its own
citizens but also sowed the seeds of insurrection in the slave
societies of the New World, leading to the loss of Saint-Domingue
and the creation of the first black republic in Haiti at the
beginning of the nineteenth century. This proved critical to the
economy of the French Caribbean, driving both colons and slaves
from Saint-Domingue to seek shelter across the Atlantic world, and
leaving a bitter legacy in the French Caribbean. It has also
created an uneasy memory of the slave trade in French ports like
Nantes, La Rochelle, and Bordeaux, and has left an indelible mark
on race relations in France today.
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