Week Six Chapter 16 (Echos-End)

Echoes of Revolution

Britain lost the colonies in North America which stared their interest in Asia. Napoleon's quick conquest in Egypt allowed them to start a regime. Also ideas of republicanism, greater social equality and national liberation from foreign rule started to begin. To simply put the echoes of the Atlantic Revolutions were the end of slavery, nationalists, and feminists.

Abolition Of Slavery

In the 18th century enlightenment thinkers in Europe started to criticize slavery as a violation of natural rights. These ideas grew stronger due to the Quakers and the Protestants in Britain and the United States. Abolitionist movements in Britain brought pressure on the governments to stop slave trading. Britain stopped slave trade in 1807 and began to troll the Atlantic ocean to stop illegal ships carrying slaves in West Africa. Brazil was the last country to stop slave trade and in the 19th century slave trade officially ended.

Nations and Nationalism

By the end of the 20th century the idea that different people and cultures were separated into nations was a common idea. It separated different kinds of people and unified the people that were apart of the same nation, people were bound by blood, culture or common land. Nationalism was a powerful idea that unified Germany and Italy. It also inspired the Irish to seek separation from Great Britain.

 Feminist Beginnings

The third echo of the Atlantic Revolutions is what sparked the feminist movement and what started women questioning their subordination to men. With a growing middle class of industrializing societies women were getting more educational opportunities as well as some freedoms. In 1870 most feminist movements in the West were focused mostly on Suffrage. By 1914, about 100,000 women took part in French Feminist organizations. Also women in the upper middle class had started to be accepted into universities and in the United States laws were made to increase women's rights like in divorce. Even with these improvements many scholars were divided about women's issues.