Effects of Revolution. The Abolition of Slavery Slavery – 3000 BCE to 1888 Enlightenment thinking = equality Slave revolts change peoples thinking Prosperity.

Effects of Revolution

The Abolition of Slavery

• Slavery – 3000 BCE to 1888• Enlightenment thinking = equality• Slave revolts change peoples thinking• Prosperity of New England and England

Example’s of abolition of slavery

• British• 1807 – forbade sale• 1834 – emancipate w/in

empire• Patrol Atlantic for slave ships

• Russia• Free serfs 1861

• United States• 1861 to 1865 – Civil War

• Latin America• 1850’s depending on

independence• Brazil• 1888

How did it work out for former slaves?• Haiti – only place where land was redistributed• US – Sharecropping • Africa – internal slavery continued• Russia – still poor and mad• Caribbean, Peru, South Africa, Hawaii, Malaya • indentured servitude• From Inia and China

Slavery in the Islamic World

• Begins to loose favor because of Quran• No popular grassroots movement• Gradually outlawed in the 20th century because of international

pressure

Feminist Beginnings

• Enlightenment and equality • Mary Wollstonecraft – influenced by French Rev.

Industrialization creates opportunity

• Or at least a change in venue• The daily grind vs. textile factory jobs

• Middle class develops• Seneca Falls, New York 1848 – first organized expression of women’s rights• Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Declaration of Sentiments• Similar efforts began to arise in both England and France

• Women even began to wear pants under their skirts

Progress – 1900

• A few universities had opened up to women• Some states in USA allowed women to own and manage property• Few more jobs – nursing, social work and teaching• Nightingale – Nursing• Jane Adams – social work

• New Zealand – first country to allow voting rights

The other side of the Argument

• Strains of education would cause women not to be able to reproduce• Some saw suffragist like Jews and socialists• “A foreign body in our national life” • http://historyoffeminism.com/anti-suffragette-postcards-posters-cartoons/

Non western suffrage

• The idea did spread but with mixed results• Is it seen as a development from the hated west?• Ex. Katina from Java – anti arranged marriage and wanted education

• Is there a country that you would like to know when women got the right to vote?• http://womensuffrage.org/?page_id=69

Nations and Nationalism

•Before revolutions – community •Foreign rule no big deal•Part of a religious or ethnic group

•After revolutions - country

Why the shift from community?

• Science weakens the hold of religion• Industrialization causes migration• Printing press standardized languages and dialects

Why? Different reasons for different locations

•U.S.A and France – Republic• “We the People”

Racism as a reason for nationalism

• Germany and Italy – Unify• Greeks and Serbs want independence from Ottomans• Czechs and Hungarians want out of Austrian rule• Poles and Ukrainians become more aware of oppression• Irish want out of British rule• Jewish people want an area of Palestine