In the chapter on the French Revolution the question of slavery is mainly linked with where?

Correct answer: With French colonies

The governing historical context is French colonial expansion and the plantation economy. During the eighteenth century, French colonies in the Caribbean, especially Saint-Domingue, depended heavily on enslaved African labour for producing sugar, coffee and other profitable crops. The debate about slavery therefore exposed the contradiction between revolutionary ideals of liberty and equality and the continued exploitation of colonial subjects. Option A is correct because the issue was primarily connected with French colonies and plantations. Versailles, the Bastille and the Estates-General were important in the political story of the Revolution, but none of them was the main geographical setting of colonial slavery.