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4.02- The Web of Tension

Revolutions

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Free Coloreds and Slavery Armies Running Around

The course of the french revolution is going to play out in miniature, in saint domain. The code noir specifically granted free coloreds the same rights as any one who had been born on native french soil - even if they themselves were freed slaves from africa. But it was this very prosperity that did finally introduce codified racism into the colony after the end of the seven years war in 17 63.

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