Throughout this chapter I have noticed how one revolution seems to echo off of another. The French Revolution echoed off the North American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution echoed off the French, and the Spanish American echoed after all three. What was so intriguing about the Haitian Revolution was that it was one of the richest colonies in the world. It produced about 40% of the worlds sugar and half of its coffee. With all these plantations they had a lot of slaves, about 500,000. But what's interesting is that even with slaves there were about 30,000 gens de couleur libres, which are free colored people. Their revolution was about slavery, to free slaves or keep the system. The French sided with the slaves and declared an end to slavery as well as burning 1000 plantations and killing hundreds of whites. It was soon an interracial war. From this is where we got the Louisiana Purchase.
After these revolutions many different movements started taking off worldwide: The abolition of slavery, nations taking in nationalism, and women's right. Nationalism brought countries to unite but also forced dissatisfied ones to revolt. Overall it did more good than evil.
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