Revolution: History And Impacts Essay

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A great revolutionary once said, “The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” The revolutionary in this quote, Che Guevara, epitomizes the notion that revolutions are not a random occurrence but rather a continuous push for a fundamental change. In the framework of revolutions that have occurred in the world, most notably those that have occurred in Britain, America, France, and Haiti; one realizes that the elements of competition and mass mobilization are intrinsic to understanding the successes of each revolutionary movement. Yet, the catalysts and societal implications for each of these revolutions provides different venues of implementation that ...view middle of the document...

However, this period of violence and anarchy did not stop there it continued throughout the French revolution, culminating with the execution of King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette at the aptly titled “Place de la Rèvolution”.
The same aforementioned anarchic mentality is evidenced in the Haitian Revolution as well. The Haitian Revolution occurred from 1791-1804 in the French Colony of Saint-Domingue, a colony that at that time produced over forty percent of the world’s sugar and over sixty percent of the world’s coffee. Saint-Domingue was also the wealthiest and most prosperous colony in all of the Caribbean. Just like France, the colony of Saint-Domingue also practiced a process by which people were divided into multiple ranks within the society. The division of class within Saint-Domingue became more apparent as the immense sums of wealth that was being cultivated by these colonies began to grow at an exponential rate. As a result, a schism began to form between the “wealthy” slave owners and those who were lowest in the society, enslaved blacks. While slaves were becoming increasingly discontented with the treatment of themselves, many slave masters and wealthy plantation owners were ambivalent to their claims, and did not have any care for their claims until enlightened writer, Guillaume Raynal publicly...

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