What Was The Importance Of The American Revolutions In The 1770s

Part One: The most important theme from the previous two weeks of class is the need for revolution that sparked in many oppressed societies. The Atlantic Revolutions (1770s-1820s), cover the American, French, Haitian, and Latin American Revolutions. Each one of these revolutions was inspired by the movement of the Enlightenment, which urged individuals to act with reason and agency. The first of these, the American Revolution from 1775 to 1783, demanded “certain unalienable rights…[of] life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, and that “all men are created equal” (“Avalon Project - Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776” 1). The American Revolution influenced all the revolutions that would come after, as it laid the example of the rights that should be demanded by the people.
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Many slaves found ways to trick the system with the resources they had at hand in order to make their lives more bearable. These tricks sometimes resulted in successful escapes. One example is the case of Ellen Craft, a light skinned slave descendant from a black female slave and her white master. Ellen, originally from Georgia, took advantage of her light skin and managed to free herself and her husband, William Craft, by dressing up as a white man traveling to the North with his slave. Once in the North, they joined the abolition movement before fleeing to England. Another example is Harriet Tubman, who in fear of being sold to another slave master, ran away and walked by foot to the North, where she could be free. Once in the North, she became an important figure in the abolition movement, as she became the leader and “conductor on the Underground Railroad, making nineteen trips south to free more than three hundred slaves, including members of her family” (Lewis