French colonies in the Lesser Antilles 1789-1791

Salem Ibrahim Al-Doury, Ashwaq

	French colonies in the Lesser Antilles 1789-1791
Al Malweah for Archaeological and Historical studies
Article 1, Volume 4, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 293-307
Author
Ashwaq Salem Ibrahim Al-Doury
Abstract
French colonies in the Lesser Antilles 1789-1791, That France was able to obtain large colonies in North America, Africa, the Caribbean and India in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, but could not maintain these colonies because of the series of wars it fought against Britain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, funding the spotlight in this The modest search for colonies in the Lesser Antilles, formerly known as the Andes Islands, The study included an introduction, conclusions, footnotes and a summary in Arabic and English, including the most important of which were the colonies that were subject to France in 1789 and the internal conditions in the French colonies, as well as the French colonies in the Lesser Antilles of these colonies from the Royal Government, the attitude of the Constituent Assembly from those colonies, their attitude towards the French Revolution, the problems, revolutions and upheavals faced by the Constituent Assembly in the colonies of the Lesser Antilles. The most important conclusions: 1- The French colonies in the tiny Antilles, which have been subjected to injustice by the autocratic government, racial discrimination and navigation laws, and the manner in which problems and injustice were addressed in accordance with the principles of the French Revolution (freedom, equality and brotherhood) and the preservation of those colonies at the same time required appropriate and effective solutions. 2- The conditions experienced by the Constituent Assembly made it in the face of the problems of the colonies, especially with regard to slavery and slaves. At its first session, it proclaimed the principles inspired by the beliefs espoused by the philosophers of the Enlightenment, but they did not apply in the colonies, Has supported the principles of freedom. 3- The permanent relations between the three groups: the white, the Melons, the slaves, their different positions according to their regions, the change in (regional or colonial societies, rulers, military leaders and civilian commissioners), the Constituent Assembly decrees, periods of relative calm, The bloody massacres, presented a turbulent history in which all these factors, which complicated the situation, were intertwined.

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