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What motivated the revolutionaries on Saint-Domingue (now Haiti)? What was their main goal?
fear of conquest by British troops who wanted control of the sugar trade
a desire to realize Enlightenment ideals they had read about
freedom from the oppression and cruelty of slavery
dislike for Napoleon, France's new head of state
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The correct choice is: freedom from the oppression and cruelty of slavery.
Explanation: the Saint-Domingue revolt was primarily a slave uprising aimed at emancipation and ending brutal plantation slavery and racial inequality. Enlightenment and French Revolutionary ideas about liberty and equality did influence leaders and provided ideological fuel, and foreign powers (Britain/Spain) were involved opportunistically — but the revolutionaries’ main goal was freedom and legal equality for formerly enslaved people. Napoleon was not a motivating factor at the revolt’s start (he later tried to reassert control and restore slavery).
Explanation: the Saint-Domingue revolt was primarily a slave uprising aimed at emancipation and ending brutal plantation slavery and racial inequality. Enlightenment and French Revolutionary ideas about liberty and equality did influence leaders and provided ideological fuel, and foreign powers (Britain/Spain) were involved opportunistically — but the revolutionaries’ main goal was freedom and legal equality for formerly enslaved people. Napoleon was not a motivating factor at the revolt’s start (he later tried to reassert control and restore slavery).
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