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Echoes of Revolution
  • Beyond the Echoes of the Atlantic Revolution, three major movements arose to challenge continuing patterns of operation or exclusion. Abolitionists sought the end of slavery, nationalists hoped to foster unity and independence from foreign rule, and feminists challenged male dominance. 
The Abolition of Slavery 

  • Enlightenment thinkers in Europe had become increasingly critical of slavery as a violation of the natural rights of every person. The actions of slaves accelerated the end of slavery. The Haitian Revolution was followed by three major rebellions in the British West. 
  • The Great Jamaica Revolt of 1831-1832 was important because it caused the abolishment of slavery in Britain. Secular, religious, economic, and political ways of thinking came together in abolitionist movements and brought pressure on governments to close down trade in slaves and then to ban slavery itself. 
  • In 1807, Britain forbade the sale of slaves within its empire and in 1834 emancipated those who remained enslaved. Following independence, most Latin American countries abolished slavery by the 1850s. 
  • The end of Atlantic slavery during the 19th century surely marked a major and quite rapid turn in the world’s social history and in the moral thinking of humankind

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