Tuesday, February 26, 2019
American vs Hatian Revolution
American vs. Haitian Revolution While the transitions in colonial America and Haiti had much compatibility, they were likewise unique in their own ways. In both revolutions, the rebels repulseed against a orthogonal superpower that was in a weakened economic state in order to gain economic and social exemption. However, the Haiti revolution stressed freedom for everybody, including slaves, unlike the American Revolution that basically focused on the ineluctably of the middle class.The revolutions in both of these countries revolutions would have been unsuccessful if it were not for the disqualifying problems faced by both opposing superpowers. The success of the Haitian revolution was due in no small part to the political tumult brought about by the French revolution. This weakened the ability of the colonial administrators in Haiti to maintain order and caused the authority of colonial officials to no longer be clear even the very legitimacy of slavery was even macrocosm cha llenged in France.The turmoil in France and Haiti paved the way for a beat between the elite plantation owners and the free black slave owners. This rubbish in turn gave the slaves, under the leadership of Toussaint LOuverture, the unheard of opportunity to revolt against their owners and emancipates them from a brutal system of bondage (Corbet). The revolution in the Americans was against its suffer country, Great Britain, and unlike Haiti, the British army was in full take out when war broke.There were, however, economic weaknesses that led to the inevitable revolution against Britain. Britain was weighed down(p) by debts from the French and Indian War, and therefore taxed the colonies substantially to make up for this. The ideologies of the revolutions in both Haiti and America were very similar. In America, philosophers such as Thomas Paine and John Locke preached social and economic freedom. Thomas Paine writes, And he hath
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