CH 16 + documents

 This era was about the abolition of slavery and how it played an important roll in the ideas and practices of the Atlantic revolutions. It interesting that they said the newly freed people didn't achieve anything close to political equality except in Haiti. This was also an era for the nations and nationalism as well as the feminist beginnings. In the documents it was talking about the French Revolution and the "rights of man".  Also, had the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789 had 14 rules that they were trying to abide by. Fredrick Douglass was an African American who was born a slave but managed to turn that around by becoming an Abolitionist and writer. Whites were afraid of his knowledge because he knew what he was to them. His knowledge was power. Douglass open the door for African Americans and gave them the strength mentally. You can be whatever you want if you put your mind to it.  In 1852 he went to New York for his freedom. The last document was about the Rights of Women. Which is still a big thing going on in the present time. Women want equal rights and treated the same as men. Women wanted to vote and allowed to have a voice. Elizabeth Stanton addressed the US congressional committee in 1892. She was the main advocate for women and the right to vote in the 1920s.