ch 16 pt 2

• England and New England were among the most prosperous regions of the Western world in the early nineteenth century and both were based on free labor.
•  The Great Jamaican Revolt of 1831-1832 was particularly important in prompting Britain to abolish slavery throughout its empire in 1833.
• The end of Atlantic slavery during the nineteenth century marked a major and rapid turn in the world's social history and the moral thinking of mankind.
• Newly freed people did not achieve anything close to political equality, except in Haiti.
• Europeans imposed colonial rule on Africa in the late nineteenth century, one of their justifications was that they needed to emancipate enslaved people.
• It was very ironic that they claimed that they needed to end slavery in a continent that they had extracted slaves from for more than four centuries.
• Some nineteenth century Muslim authorities opposed slavery claiming that it went against the Quran's ideals of freedom and equality. 
• Nationalism proved to be an infinitely flexible and enormously powerful idea in the nineteenth-century Europe and beyond.
• A third echo of the Atlantic revolutions lay in the emergence of a feminist movement.
• An organized and substantial group of women called into question the most fundamental and accepted feature of all preindustrial civilizations-the subordination of women to men.
• In the twentieth century feminist thinking transformed "the way in which women and men work, play, think, dress, worship, vote, reproduce, make love and make war"
• From the beginning, feminism became a transatlantic movement in which European and American women attended the same conferences, corresponded regularly, and read one another's work 
• By 1914, some 10,000 women took part in French feminist organizations, while the National American Woman Suffrage Association claimed 2 million members.
• Feminists were viewed as selfish, willing to sacrifice the family or even the nation while pursuing their individual goals.