Chapter 16 Echoes of Revolution 1750-1914 and Chapter 16 Documents

I learned from the Echoes of Revolution that many different changes would begin which were the abolition of slavery, nations and nationalism, and feminist beginnings. As we know the abolitions strived for the end of slavery; nationalist aimed for foster unity and independence from foreign rule; and feminists challenged male dominance. All of these movements may have begun in Europe and the americas, but each of these movements were key during the Atlantic revolutions, and would have a global significance for the centuries that would occur after. The abolition of slavery would occur after a little longer then a century, from 1780 to 1890, finally slavery had lost its legitimacy and was ended in many countries. For enlightenment thinkers in Europe during the eighteenth-century they saw slavery as a violation of natural rights of every person. The American and French revolutions both made public announcements of liberty and equality and was the focus of attention of these principles. Many different religious voices began to speak for antislavery, first were the Quakers and then Protestant evangelicals in Britain an the United States. Slavery to these two different groups was seen as offensive to their religion and was a crime in the eyes of God. These beliefs began to be accepted because people began to realize that slavery was not as important as they thought for economic progression. Many slaves began to push for the end of slavery thorough successful moments such as the Haitian Revolution that was followed by three other major rebellions in British West Indies. These rebellions demonstrated that slaves were not happy the way they were being treated and these revolts led to fear in the British public opinions. Many people of the British public began to thing in a manner of slavery being, "not only morally wrong and economically inefficient, but also politically unwise" (Strayer 799). These various forms of thinking came from secular, economic, and political that came together in abolitionist movements, that were most powerful in Britain; pushing the government to close down slave trade and eventually ban slavery altogether. As we see on page 799 there is a picture of an antislavery medallion that was created by English Quakers in the late eighteenth century. The Quakers were some of the earliest participants of the abolitionist movement and saw slavey as taking a person's natural rights away. Slavery should have ended far before this but in order for there to be change many people need to get together to speak out against what is happening. This is exactly what we saw during the Atlantic Revolution.