After reading about the Haiti revolution, I wanted to go into more detail about the revolution. The Haitian revolution stands as the only successful slave revolution. There have been numerous attempts off black revolts, but this revolution stands as the only one in which the blacks were able to overthrow the government. This truly was the mark of the new era, when blacks, people who for years were thought as an inferior "race". When the blacks were able to take over the government, it proved to the rest of the world that the blacks were capable of being great and they were tired of being treated as inferiors. Even though blacks were still treated as crap for the next 100 years, this revolution would leave a mark on the world, and the white mans' view on the black slaves. I think slave masters now figured out that they would have to understand the blacks and give them some respect or else they would revolt like they did Haiti. I found it interesting that blacks choose to revolt at this specific time because the French Government had just underwent a revolution and the new government that was instilled now got to feel how it was to be on the other side of the revolution.
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Carson, what evidence do you have to support your claim that 'slave masters now figured out that they would have to understand the blacks and give them some respect or else they would revolt like they did Haiti'
ReplyDeleteSlavery continued in America for about 60 years longer than it did in Haiti. At what point did the slave masters realize they deserved respect?
Similar to Cy's comment, but do you really think that this revolt changed the the rest of the world's view of black slaves and do you think this one event even slightly changed how black slaves were treated?
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ReplyDeleteMore generally, I'd like to see you do more to clearly establish the connections between revolutions around different parts of the globe. For example, you said that the revolt in Haiti changed the way that slave masters treated their slaves around the world. You also mentioned that the French had undergone a revolution at around the same time at the Haitians did (but you chose not to delve into the significance of this either).
ReplyDeleteHm... A citation would be helpful here to reference your source. Even if you got it from the textbook, from the classroom, or from wikipedia, it's good to know what you're basing your observations from. In terms of the effect that the Haitian, JStor has many articles about how the Haitian revolution challenged the role of slavery in a time of democratic revolutions. (For example: Thomas Fiehrer, "Saint-Domingue/Haiti: Louisiana's Caribbean Connection", http://www.jstor.org/stable/4232758)
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