French Revolution Humanitarian Benefits

Humanitarian Benefits of a Revolution As a result of the French Revolution, representatives of the people, otherwise known as the National Assembly, drafted a declaration of expected, absolute, and sacred rights of man on August 26, 1789, known as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. Deputies of the National Assembly accredited the cause of public calamity to the obliviousness, mistreatment and disdain of the rights of man. To assist in the conservation of general welfare, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789) decreed that all men are born and remain free and equal in rights. However, with the best-interests of supporting the commercial prosperities coupled with the French nation’s commerce in mind, colonies
The very essence of the escalating class struggling between the existing governing class of the French empire and the mounting, revolutionary class of the black colonials due to political contradictions is exemplified within the Address to the National Assembly in Favor of the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1790), “If some motive might on the contrary push them [the blacks] to insurrection, might it not be the indifference of the National Assembly about their lot? Might it not be the insistence on weighing them down with chains, when on consecrates everywhere this eternal axiom: that all men are born free and equal in rights” (CP 60). Within the contents of the Society of the Friends of Blacks’ address to the National Assembly it is proposed that slavery revolts are within the realm of possibilities due to the colonials’ exclusion from the recently ratified Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789). Due to the inconsistent implementation of these “incontestable” principles relative to social justice, intensifying tension between the existing governing class and the mounting, revolutionary class is apparent with future uprising on the
In an anonymous letter addressed to M. Mollérat and Saint-Pierre (1789), the frustrations of the mounting, revolutionary class toward the empire’s double standards in regards to the “incontestable” principles of liberty is made abundantly clear, “we want to die for this liberty; for we want it and plan to get it at whatever price, even with the use of mortars, canons, and rifles” (CP 63). Soon thereafter, the colossal and successful revolt in Saint-Domingue consisting of 450,000 black slaves erupted. In an endeavor to restore the support of lost commercial prosperities of French commerce and proprietorship of Hati, “the first abolition of slavery in modern times was endorsed by the Convention in Paris in February 1794” (Doyle 73). Through the formulation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789), these “incontestable” principles relative to social justice that were inconsistently implemented ultimately served as the inspirational, motivating driving-force that led to the most successful slave revolt in