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  • Vizi0420Nov 14, 2016 at 12:42 pm

    The topic of equality has been rehashed so many times, and it’s just sad that it seems people are halfheartedly loving their brothers and sisters, neighbors and community members. The inequality of today and certain biases I feel were created by media and carried on from former generations. The skin color of the person next to me personally is invisible, and if only people would realize that they are separating themselves by classifying themselves by skin color, they’d stop and realize that color doesn’t determine who you are. You determine who you are and how you act and react.

  • knowledgeispowerNov 11, 2016 at 1:06 pm

    This post taught me about some of the the many events that took place on the behalf of our African brothers and sisters. Defending their natural born rights, and in the process enlightening a lot of the rest of the Human race to understand equality. This struggle for natural rights is common for all human beings but the results are different depending on the people with the most power. In Germany the revolution of Otto Von Bismark was from the top of the power structure and it brought all the others along into a nation BUT in Haiti the revolution of Toussaint L’Overture was fighting the power structure of slavery and their independence was harder to keep because their nation had no source of strength. They were still being ruled and in a way forced into slavery because of their type of sugar plantation economy and limited geography as an island. Germany had a working class that was relied upon to build up the power of industry and gave rise to a new nationalism out of the region of PRUSSIA.

  • oceanmtnskyNov 11, 2016 at 10:58 am

    Latinoamérica tenían diferentes clases sociales. Los que tenía el máximo poder fueron los peninsulares (estos eran los españoles) después de ellos estaban los criollos(españoles nacidos en américa) el tercer nivel eran los mestizos y mulatos. Finalmente los nativos en américa. Comparando latinoamérica con Haití la mayor parte eran esclavos. No habia clase media.
    Latin America was divided by social classes that put the Peninsulares on top and the Native Americans on the bottom. In Haiti most people were on the bottom as slaves. In Haiti there was no real middle class but in Latin America there was a bigger middle class known as Creoles. Also some Mestizos and Mulattoes could have power.

  • victor4256Nov 11, 2016 at 9:27 am

    well i like your post because I learned more about Haiti and France. I learned about Nat Turner’s’ 1831 Slave rebellion and how he was fighting for his peoples freedom and is a very interesting post because a lot of the things that were taking place daring this time is still a very big part of what is taking place today. The African American revolt shows how people of color did not have equal economic and political power and socially they were victims of racism.

  • NaNaNov 11, 2016 at 9:02 am

    this is a very interesting post because a lot of the things that were taking place daring this time is still a very big part of what is taking place today. I learned that the African Americans did not have any source of power through out there economy.I learned about Nat Turner’s’ 1831 Slave rebellion and how he was fighting for his peoples freedom . I also learned that the slaves had to put up a good fight to have there freedom but still was not enough.

  • oceanmtnskyNov 11, 2016 at 8:52 am

    This post is very interesting because it ties a theme throughout the last 300 years of North American history. A Revolt is only successful if the revolutionaries can hold a source of power on some equal level. The equality of power through economics was never on the side of African Americans through most of this history. When you compare this to Nationalism in Europe, the Europeans competed for power and had a source of power in industry. Otto Von Bismark won a united Germany with Nationalism and Idustry that he used to build up Military power.

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