History 2950 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Emancipation Proclamation, Mughal Empire, Slave Rebellion
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Colonization & de - colonization in the age of revolutions: the haitian revolution, causes, outcomes, the challenges of the haitian revolution, the british in india, increasing british control in the 18th century, the company as government. Important because it poses profound questions about the extent of enlightenment ideas. Slave ships bring 30,000 new slaves to haiti annually. Slaves are not the first the revolt. Unsettling to other revolutionary countries and places around the world. Equality, brotherhood, goals of the french revolution. Pushes this question to the logical conclusion --> equality for all. Dense population --> haiti is about the size of maryland. White french residence begin to form a new government to assert a certain level of. No discussion of ending slavery in haiti free. White people in haiti were deeply opposed. Fighting for more rights and inclusion in the new system of government in. National assembly grants political rights to free people of color whose parents were also.
