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- Oct 2024
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Politically and culturally, Enlightenment thinking fostered beliefs in common humanity, the possibility of societal progress, the remaking of oneself, and the importance of one’s social and ecological environment
This is interesting, I didn't actually know that there was a change in views on race in this time period, I thought that was a much more modern concept.
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All would, in their own way, lay claim to the freedom and equality promised, if not fully realized, by the Revolution.
Ironic, given that slavery was still widespread in some places post-Revolution, meaning that all did not, in fact, lay claim to that freedom.
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The Black activism inspired by Haiti’s revolution was so powerful that anxious white leaders scrambled to use the violence of the Haitian revolt to reinforce white supremacy and pro-slavery views by limiting the social and political lives of people of color.
Interesting, because regardless of the actual activism, wasn't Haiti forced to pay a ridiculous sum by the French that left the country economically crippled? I wonder if some people were discouraged by that, and what the response to those arguments was.
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