Week 7

Haiti was in debt for many centuries in history; the loans taken out by the Haitians from the French, German, and North American banks costed 80% of the governments revenue in 1915. From the early eighteenth century to the mid-ninetinth century there was much political and social upheaval, leading some historians to think in terms of a "world crisis" or "conserving revolutions". The Atlantic revolutions were different than those els where for the reason that the strained European states were global rather than regional and the were closely connected to one another. In North America, not until the mid-eighteenth century  most people did not think to break away from England for such reasons: protection in war, access to British markets, and their identity as "Englishmen". The principles of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804)  had different meanings to different people. To the grand blancs- the rich white owners- it suggested greater autonomy for the colony and fewer economic restrictions on trade but resented the demands of the petits blancs, who sought equality of citizenship for al whites. The Latin American and North American revolutions occurred in different societies and gave rise to very different to very different historical trajectories.