Week 18- Abolitionism in the Age of Revolutions

Promoted ideologies

• rights

• freedom

Abolitionist approach

• Abolitionist campaign began INTELLECTUALLY

• wasn’t necessarily promoted to racism

• Free labor

• Race

Free Labor

intent of ending slavery due to ____ _____

Quaker and Protestant religious groups by 1780s

Quaker movement moved to national campaigns

UK Quaker and Protestant religious groups

Organized mass petitioning

British parliament response

were passive/minor about taking action

By 1782

Denmark took action in abolishing slavery

By 1808

British took action in abolishing slavery all together

Press

abolitonists used to press to advocate for abolishing slavery

Olaudah Equiano

• Wrote the interesting narrative

• Was an emancipated slave

• Became a prominent slave

Haitian Revolt

most successful revolt

Haitian Revolt

• first black republic in the world

• Led by former slave Toussaint L’Overture

• Began in 1791

• Established French control by 1793

Haitian Revolt

• British and french forces made to withdraw from intervention ini the island in 1798

• Napoleon Bonaparte attempted to capture L’Overture and restore slavery

• A year after L’Overture died in prison in France, Haiti became the frist black republic in the world

European colonialism

profited European empires

Colonialism

White Man’s Burden, Africans, Abolitionism

White Man’s Burden

• Termed used to describe colonization

  • Bring benefits of civilization to Africans

    • Idea that

      • Africans were backwards

      • Europeans were enlightened

Africans

Started to organize themselves as a form of activism

• Mid to late 20th century

  • Claimed independence

Abolitionism

• Wanted to end African Slavery

• Europeans claimed they wanted to end slavery of Africans

  • African slavery was not the same as other slavery

Walter Rodney

• Wrote ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’

  • Inquiries to understand the history of precolonial Africa

Development

Structural dependence

Underdevelopment

• Started centuries before the slave trade

  • Unequal trade benefits between Europeans and Africans

• Means of comparing development

  • Artificial status

• Product of exploitation

Africa was a structural dependence with

Europe

Precolonial Africa

Africans were trading with each other before the arrival of EUropeans

Strength of conenctions

Precolonial and descendent Africans