Lucianna Balica
world literature
The Haitian revolution was part of and linked to a much larger set of upheavals that shook both sides of the Atlantic world between 1775 and 1825. The Atlantic revolutions were distinctive in various ways, They cost a fortune and they were global not region. The Atlantic basin had become a world of intellectual and cultural exchanges as well as one of commercials and biological interaction. New ideas of liberty, equality, free trade, religious tolerance, republicanism, and human rationality were in the air. John Locke (1632-1704) had argued, that "social contract" between ruler and ruled should last only as long as it served the people well. The American Revolution did not grow out of social tensions within the colonies. Popular sovereignty, natural rights, the consent of the governed.
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