Positive Outcomes of the French Revolution

The 1789 revolution in France was an extremely extraordinary and radical event. The French Revolution not only altered lives of people who lived in France and its colonies, it impacted the rest of the world. The war in France lasted for about ten years and although many horrible things happened to innocent people, it was on the whole beneficial. Slavery, the feudal system, and the monarchy were all done away with. Ridding itself of these three things has helped France become the nation that it is today.
There was no slavery in the country of France itself; instead it was located in their Caribbean colonies. White settlers began to expand the African slave trade in the late 1600s in order to help with the hard labor required for sugar cultivation. By the time of the revolution, the ratio of slave to white had increased to eight to one in Martinique, six and a half to one in Guadeloupe, and fifteen to one in Saint Dominique (Censor and Hunt 117). The treatment of black slave...