Chapters 16, 17, & 18 Online Commentary

I am going to do something quite different this time around.  Instead of blogging about each individual chapter, I think I will blog about the one thing that stuck with me after I read the hundred pages or so of text.

So here you have it . . . Atlantic Revolutions.  I never heard this term before.  Every time a battle was mentioned in previous texts, it was always given its own name.  So I thought what exactly is meant by Atlantic Revolutions?  There was a wave of wars that occurred in the Atlantic World during the 18th & 19th centuries.  So, what is meant by the Atlantic World?  Well, these events happened in the Americas, Europe, France, and Haiti.

There was much emphasis made about the "echoes" of the Atlantic Revolutions.  This word captured it all and covered much more than these battles that took place within a specified time frame.  After all, many actions in life causes "echoes" as well.  Prior consequences can influence future events. That is what materialized with the Atlantic Revolutions.  In time, slavery was abolished, the notion of popular sovereignty came to be in which people would govern their own nations and not God, and women's rights were brought to the platforms.  The ideas that emerged from the Enlightenment brought many issues into the light and addressed.  These ideas eventually came to fruition and our world has been forever changed by it.

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