WHAT DOES THE TERM NATIONALISM MEAN? AN IDEOLOGY BASED ON THE PREMISE THAT THE INDIVIDUAL’S LOYALTY AND DEVOTION TO THE NATION-STATE SURPASS OTHER INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP INTERESTS IS REFERRED TO AS NATIONALISM. THROUGHOUT GLOBAL HISTORY, NATIONALISM HAS HAD POSITIVE AS WELL AS NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON SOCIETY. ALTHOUGH NATIONALISM WAS PORTRAYED IN COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE, FROM MY POINT OF VIEW HAITI’S HAD THE GREATEST EFFECT ON SOCIETY. MY MAIN REASON FOR SUCH A STATEMENT IS THAT HAITI, BEING A FRENCH COLONY WAS THE FIRST LATIN AMERICAN COLONY TO REVOLT AGAINST EUROPEAN RULE. AT THIS CRITICAL MOMENT THERE CAME TO THE FRONT OF THE STAGE THE ABLEST FIGURE IN HAITIAN HISTORY, AND PERHAPS THE MOST REMARKABLE MAN IN THE ANNALS OF THE NEGRO RACE, TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE. L’OUVERTURE, BEING A SELF-EDUCATED FORMER SLAVE, MANAGED TO LEAD A REVOLT BASED ON HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAS.
HE DID THIS BECAUSE HE WANTED LIBERTY FOR HIS PEOPLE. L’OUVERTURE WHO WAS SOON PROVEN TO BE AN EFFECTIVE MILITARY LEADER GAINED CONTROL OF MUCH OF THE ISLAND. AS A RESULT OF HIS DETERMINATION L’OUVERTURE GAINED FREEDOM FOR HAITIAN SLAVES IN 1978. NOT ONLY DID HE FREE THE SLAVES BUT HE ALSO DID OTHER THINGS TO HELP FELLOW HAITIANS. APPROMIXATELY FOUR YEARS AFTER THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, A FRENCH MILITARY LEADER, SENT AN ARMY TO REESTABLISH FRENCH DOMINANCE IN HAITI. TOUSSAINT LED A GUERRILLA WAR TO GAIN HAITIAN INDEPENDENCE BUT WAS SOON DEFEATED.
The Term Paper on Brazilian Haitian Slavery Slaves African Slave
The European colonies in the Americas were built upon the backs of the African slaves whose unpaid labor produced immense capital for Atlantic economies. Taken from their African homelands and thrust into the Americas, Black slaves labored under the hot Western sun to produce cash crops to add to the coffers of others. The slaves had no economic incentive to produce for their masters. To provide ...
HE WAS CAPTURED AND ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY AFTER WHICH HE WAS TAKEN TO FRANCE WHERE HE DIED ABOUT A YEAR AFTER HIS IMPRISONMENT. ALTHOUGH HE WAS DEFEATED, TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE WAS AND STILL IS REFERRED TO AS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS AND HEROES OF HAITI. THIS IS BECAUSE HIS DETERMINATION AS WELL AS HIS NATIONALISTIC PERSONALITY PUT TOGETHER HAD POSITIVE EFFECTS ON SOCIETY, ESPECIALLY THAT OF THE HAITIANS. AFTER A STORM, THERE MUST BE A CALM..
