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How should abolition of slavery be understood through the relation between France and its colonies?

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Correct answer: France's revolutionary ideals clashed with colonial profit and slave labour

The governing concept is the colonial contradiction within the French Revolution. France’s revolutionary principles promoted liberty and equality, while its colonies generated wealth through plantation production based heavily on enslaved labour. Sugar, coffee and other commodities connected colonial exploitation with French commercial prosperity. Abolition must therefore be understood as a conflict between a political ideal and an economic system that powerful groups wanted to preserve. Option A is correct because it captures both sides of this relationship. Option B denies the important economic connection, option C falsely presents the colonies as based only on free labour, and option D places colonial slavery in French villages, where it did not belong. The issue was imperial and economic as well as moral.

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French RevolutionFrance And ColoniesSlave LabourThe Abolition Of SlaveryThe French RevolutionHistoryClass 9 Mcq

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