Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Echos of Revolution section

I really enjoyed this chapter because it mostly reflects on the abolish of slavery, which was inspired by the enlightenment period. I think that the abolish of slavery was successful mainly because people had a better understanding of the bible, and understood that slavery was bad. Also, with the new creation of of personal liberty and freedom and equality for every one but not slaves. I was surprise to read that one sailor was still bringing slaves, but the UK did not want them anymore that really filled me with joy. The only sad part of this reading was that the abolitionist movement did not start in the US, which would of been better. The movement was greater in the UK then it spread out to the rest of the world. Latin America abolished slavery in 1850's the first country to abolish slavery was in the UK in 1834. The last country to abolish slavery was Brazil, I do not know how Brazil was the last, I would of thought that Russia was going to be last, but the abolish slavery in 1861 very close to the US. At the same time that this was happening many countries started to unite. The creator or starter of this movement was the United States of America with the American Revolution in 1776 with the birth of our country more people started to unite. For example, in 1870 Italy became its own country and in 1871 Germany became a country as well. This creation of nations, in my perspective, was the greatest thing that Europe can do and in a way over sees the future of the great European empire to come.The final revolution that the Atlantic brought was the greatest the Woman's Movement. It all started in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote a constitution. Stanton in my opinion has to be the mother of all Woman's rights movement, which in created a other movements in the UK and France. I believe that even today women are not treated well the Woman's Right movement is still underway, and I hope one day it will be accomplished.                  

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