Connecting the Haitian Revolution to the Black Lives Matter movement and its importance in recent history
In this assignment you will connect an issue confronting Americans today with an event or trend from the past. You will engage fully with the issues surrounding the current event that you have chosen by exploring relating issues from the past. You must use specific examples from both the current event and the historical event, history that we have covered this semester. For example, you may choose to trace the issue of race relations in America’s past with issues today. Your paper should be 1,500 words and include a bibliography in Chicago Manual Style.
Resources:
https://ibw21.org/news/exploring-haitian-independence-the-original-black-lives-matter-movement/
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-the-black-lives-matter-movement-redefines-common-good-1.5976575
http://www.americanyawp.com/text/07-the-early-republic/
Other quotes that need to be used:
“Haiti, and the activism it inspired, sent the message that enslaved and free Black people could not be omitted from conversations about the meaning of liberty and equality. Their words and actions—on plantations, streets, and the printed page—left an indelible mark on early national political culture.” (Yawp, Ch. 7).
“Port cities in the United States were flooded with news and refugees. Free people of color embraced the revolution, understanding it as a call for full abolition and the rights of citizenship denied in the United States. ” (Yawp, Ch. 7).
“The first decades of the new American republic coincided with a radical shift in understandings of race. Politically and culturally, Enlightenment thinking fostered beliefs in common humanity, the possibility of societal progress, the remaking of oneself, and the importance of one’s social and ecological environment—a four-pronged revolt against the hierarchies of the Old World.” (Yawp, Ch.7).
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