Black Jacobin Ascending: 1793–98

The revolutionary upheaval in Saint-Domingue, together with the outbreak of war in Europe in February 1793, had given not only the Spanish but also their imperial rivals the British an incredible opportunity to attempt to seize one of the world’s richest sugar colonies and restore the highly-profita...

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Hauptverfasser:	Forsdick, Charles, Hogsbjerg, Christian
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Zusammenfassung:	The revolutionary upheaval in Saint-Domingue, together with the outbreak of war in Europe in February 1793, had given not only the Spanish but also their imperial rivals the British an incredible opportunity to attempt to seize one of the world’s richest sugar colonies and restore the highly-profitable business of slavery. Henry Dundas, home secretary in William Pitt’s first administration (and soon to become secretary of state for war and colonies) had already been in negotiations with a number of counter-revolutionary planters from Saint-Domingue to agree that the British Empire might assume protection of the ‘Queen of the Antilles’ in case