The examples of Martinique, Guadeloupe and San Domingo place slavery in which wider frame?

Correct answer: French Caribbean colonies and plantation economy

Martinique, Guadeloupe and San Domingo were French Caribbean colonies in which plantation agriculture depended heavily on enslaved labour. Their examples place slavery within a wider colonial and Atlantic economic system, not merely within the domestic politics or taxation of France. Sugar, coffee and other export crops were cultivated on plantations, processed for international trade and connected to profits earned by merchants, planters and colonial authorities. Option C is therefore correct because it combines the geographical setting, French colonial control and plantation economy. The other choices are too narrow or unrelated: feudal courts did not define this system, municipal politics in Paris cannot explain it, and domestic taxation does not capture the forced labour and overseas trade involved.