Intro to Part 5 & Chapter 16 Documents

"long nineteenth century" was between 1750 and 1914. During this time, it was the creation of a new kind of human society. Scientific, French, and Industrial revolutions all played a big part in this. These revolutions helped transform new ideas and made greater movements toward social equality, get ordinary people to participate in political life, end slavery, and equality between men and women. This was known to be the first phenomena. The second phenomena of the long nineteenth century was the growing ability in modern societies. These phenomenas had a more important role on world history than ever before. Europeans were leading the human intervention which also created the desire to move toward dominance over the peoples.

The Atlantic revolutions created endless amounts of controversy. Debates between liberty and equality, and unitary and centralized or federal and decentralized government were discussed. This was because the purpose of these atlantic revolutions was to extend political rights. The idea of human equality articulated in these revolutions found expression in feminist, socialists, and communist movements.

Haiti was regarded as the richest colony in the world. In the book, there is a painting titled Revenge Taken by the Black Army and it showed black Haitian soldiers hanging French soldiers. I think this paining was a huge symbol of how it was in Haiti. Racism and violence was occurring, and it shows Haiti's ways of dealing with others. Throughout this time, Haiti was known to be a time of horror and fear for those that were hurt. Remembering Haiti reminded them of the lack of political change they had to go through.