Leader paper
October 9, 2020
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October 9, 2020
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course work

Using the reading links I provided worlds together, worlds apart and the primary source, answer the following questions.

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart Chapter 15: Political Reorderings
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xqtd42820eel17k/Worlds%20Together%2C%20Worlds%20Apart_%20A%20History%20of%20the%20World_%20From%201000%20CE%20to%20the%20Present%20%28%20PDFDrive.com%20%29.pdf?dl=0

Primary Source: Toussaint Louverture before the Battle of Ravine–Couleuvres https://thelouvertureproject.org/index.php?title=Ravine–Couleuvres

1) What was similar about the three Atlantic revolutions (Haitian, American and French)?  What was different about them?

2) What does Touissant L’ouverture’s “Ravine-a-Couleuvres” speech essentially argue? Why is it an historically significant document of the Haitian Revolution? 

3) The French Revolution resulted from both an immediate political crisis and long term social tensions.  What was the crisis and how did it lead to popular revolt against the monarchy?

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