Echoes of Revolutions Ch. 17 pp.507-524

The French Revolution sparked violence and massive slave revolt began in 1791. The power gradually began shifting to the slaves who were led by former slave, Toussaint Louverture. This Haitian Revolution is looked upon as the only completely successful slave revolt in history. It renamed the country Haiti, declared equality among all races, divided up plantations for farmers. This revolution also sparked horror among whites, and increased slavery in other places. This also sparked Latin American revolutions in the Spanish colonies. In 1808, Napoleon invaded Spain and portugal which forced most of the Latin Americans to take action. By 1826, most all Latin America was independent. After it all, Latin American countries became increasingly impoverished and underdeveloped, whereas the United States grew more wealthy and stable. All of these outbreaks of revolutions caused many smaller outbreaks in Europe and Russia. But after it all, slavery was largely ended in the world between 1780 and 1890. By 1914, universal male suffrage was commonly seen in many places around the world. Feminist Beginnings were developing in places especially in Europe and North America. So do you think all these Revolutions have more pros or cons in the end? I would have to say pros because look where we are now compared to then, things would only seen to gradually get better over time....or so we can pray that they do.