“It is indeed true that our Revolution was strikingly unlike that of France, and that most of those who originated it had no other than political programme.” The American and French Revolutions were both bourgeois revolutions fought under the banner of the “rights of man”—individual liberty, equality before the law, opposition to tyrannical government. Yet these upheavals were very different from one another. The Great French Revolution of 1789-1793 was the most radical of …showed first 75 words of 2051 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2051 total…common cause, and where shall we find it if we do not admit that our Revolution, however much it differed from the French Revolution in spirit, yet carried in itself the seeds of a social revolution?" But the American Revolution was not a radical revolution because of the hypocrisy of slavery. The social aspects of a radical revolution such as the French revolution, were not implemented in America until the Civil War, almost 100 years later.