It was recognised from the start that ‘liberty’ did not mean quite the same thing to French patriots as it had to the American rebels.
To free their nation, French revolutionaries were attempting to sweep away a highly complex socio-political regime that had no real analogue in North America.
And virtually every American patriot leader understood the principle of ‘liberty’ to be compatible with the institution of slavery. The agronomist (The scientific study of soil management and crop production, including irrigation and the use of herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers) .Arthur Young, a sympathetic observer of both revolutions, wrote in 1796 that they had ‘scarcely any thing in common’ except their rhetoric about freedom.
For Lafyatte once the revolution turned decisively against such expressions of his type of superiority, he fell from grace.
To free their nation, French revolutionaries were attempting to sweep away a highly complex socio-political regime that had no real analogue in North America.
And virtually every American patriot leader understood the principle of ‘liberty’ to be compatible with the institution of slavery. The agronomist (The scientific study of soil management and crop production, including irrigation and the use of herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers) .Arthur Young, a sympathetic observer of both revolutions, wrote in 1796 that they had ‘scarcely any thing in common’ except their rhetoric about freedom.
For Lafyatte once the revolution turned decisively against such expressions of his type of superiority, he fell from grace.
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