Slavery 3
Slavery 3
The issue of slavery has been touched upon often in the course of
history. The institution of slavery was addressed by French
intellectuals during the Enlightenment. Later, during the French
Revolution, the National Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of
Man, which declared the equality of all men. Issues were raised
concerning the application of this statement to the French colonies in
the West Indies, which used slaves to work the land. As they …showed first 75 words of 596 total…
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that all people have the same capacity to think and suffer.
The slavery issue was a topic of debate among the people of
France. The views of the people, based on enlightenment, the welfare of
the country or plain ignorance were tossed around for several more years
until the issue was finally resolved. In the end the philosophes, with
their liberated ideas, won out and slavery was abolished.
