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The prosperity of colonies like San Domingo shows which contradiction?

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Correct answer: Colonial profit was based on human enslavement

San Domingo, known today as Haiti, became extremely prosperous for the colonial power because its plantations produced valuable export crops. This prosperity created a serious contradiction: wealth and commercial success existed alongside the violent enslavement of a large population. The colony’s profits did not come from equal participation by free workers. They depended on a system that took away people’s liberty, forced them to labour and treated them as property. Economic prosperity therefore cannot be viewed separately from human suffering.

Option A is correct because it identifies this contradiction between colonial profit and human enslavement. Option B is false because the colony did not consist of only free peasants. Option C is false because enslaved labour produced large quantities of plantation goods. Option D is also false because France and other European powers actively benefited from colonial trade. The example shows how an apparently rich colony could be built on oppression.

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French RevolutionSan DomingoPlantation Economy

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