What the Revolution Set Off
Haiti
- Revolutionary ideals inspired a revolt of enslaved people led by Toussaint L'Ouverture in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which became the independent nation of Haiti in 1804.
- The CED's verb is inspired: the ideals travelled to a place their authors had not intended them for.
- And the outcome is a nation, dated — the first state in the Americas founded by a revolt of enslaved people.
The CED's verb for the ideals reaching Saint-Domingue is...
They travelled to a place their authors had not intended them for.
Two reactions across Europe
- While many were inspired by the revolution's emphasis on equality and human rights, others condemned its violence and disregard for traditional authority.
- The CED gives both reactions equal grammatical weight and does not adjudicate between them.
- So this subtopic is where the political argument of the next century begins, with both positions already stated.
Select both grounds for condemnation the CED names.
They are separable — a critic could accept the principles and reject the Terror.
Why ideals travel
- A claim stated as universal cannot easily be confined: the rights of man has no clause restricting it to France.
- 4.3's natural-rights language is portable precisely because it does not name a people.
- So the same feature that made the argument powerful at home made it uncontainable abroad.
Inspiration, condemnation, or the outcome in Haiti?
Sort each response to the Revolution.
Saint-Domingue became the independent nation of Haiti in ____.
The first state in the Americas founded by a revolt of enslaved people.
The CED gives inspiration and condemnation equal weight, and does not adjudicate. Many were inspired by the emphasis on equality and human rights; others condemned the violence and disregard for traditional authority — and both positions are ideas the revolution produced.
Natural-rights language is portable because it...
What made the argument powerful at home made it uncontainable abroad.
And why it was condemned
- The CED names two grounds for condemnation: violence and disregard for traditional authority.
- They are separable — a critic could accept the principles and reject the Terror, or reject both.
- 5.7's Congress of Vienna and 5.8's Romanticism are two different responses built on that condemnation.
An answer giving only the inspiration has recorded half of what the CED says.
Both the inspiration and the condemnation are ideas the revolution produced.
Influence on political and social ideas
- The objective is how the events and developments of the French Revolution influenced political and social ideas.
- So the answer is about ideas, and both the inspiration and the condemnation are ideas the revolution produced.
- An answer that gives only one side has recorded half of what the CED says the revolution influenced.
A declaration written to justify one country's constitution is read in a colony by people it did not have in mind. Its authors cannot object without abandoning the universality that gave the document its force. That is why the CED's verb is inspired and not permitted.
Revolutionary ideals inspired a revolt of enslaved people led by Toussaint L'Ouverture in Saint-Domingue, which became the independent nation of Haiti in 1804. While many were inspired by the emphasis on equality and human rights, others condemned its violence and disregard for traditional authority — the CED gives both equal weight, and both are ideas the revolution produced.