The History of the Revolution

To fully understand this revolution uh you do need to have some understanding of of its history and its relationship to european colonialism etc. Throughout the 1700s on the one hand you see the the mass expansion of slavery in the slave trade in parts it you know pushed through but pushed by certain comm- the production of commodities like sugar. In reaction to industrial lies almost slave trade and the expansion of these plantation economies there are massive slave resistance movements. The island of st. Domingue was originally discovered by christopher columbus which became the first outpost of spanish colonialism in the 1510s. It's also century characterized by intense imperial rivalry between the french and the british and