Atlantic Revolutions/ Abolition

I. The Age of Revolution [timeline]

what is a revolution?

privilege

chronology and geography

What is that in your hand?  It is a branch. Of what?  Of the Tree of Liberty. Where did it first grow?  In America. Where does it bloom?  In France. Where did the seeds fall?  In Ireland. [Society of United Irishmen catechism]

 

II. Political reorderings

A. revolution and empire

Act of Union (1801)

B. international affairs

British war debt

Nine Years War	£32 million
War of the Sp Succession	£50 million
War of the Aust Succession	£43 million
Seven Years War	£82 million

 

C. liberal revolutions [liberalism]

R. R. Palmer, The Age of the Democratic Revolution (1959, 1964)

Jacques Godechot, France and the Atlantic Revolution of the 18th Century (1965)

ideas

rejected traditional ideas: monarchical absolutism, views of man

championed: social contract, separation of powers, equality of man, popular sovereignty, freedom of man

print culture

Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Theobold Wolfe Tone

Touissaint Louverture

Simon Bolivar

D. limitations

who constitutes "the people"?

understandings of liberty and equality

democracy?

III. Economic reorderings

Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

free trade

industrialization

imposition of European economic policies

IV. Abolition [British abolitionists ]

evangelical revival

Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1787)

Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson

Thomas Clarkson, A Summary View of the Slave Trade and the Probably Consequences of its Abolition (1787)

Oladuah Equiano

William Wilberforce

West India lobby

abolition of the slave trade

Denmark (1803)

Britain (1807)

US (1808)

France (1814)

the Netherlands (1817)

naval slave squadron

Sierra Leone (1807) and Liberia (1821) [map]