A six-part dramatised documentary series
5: A Grateful Peasantry
Written and introduced by EVAN JONES
By the year 1791 the French Revolution had spread to the West Indies. On the island of San Domingo 100,000 slaves rose up in rebellion, dozens of plantations were destroyed and 2,000 colonists brutally massacred.
In England, weighed down by the burden of the war and civil unrest. the Prime Minister's health was beginning to deteriorate: the prospect for bringing the slave trade to an end looked bleak indeed.
Music JOSEPH HOROVITZ
Film cameraman TONY PIERCE-ROBERTS
Producer CHRISTOPHER RALLING
Book (same titled, E3.50, from bookshops