Echoes Through End

Daniel Guerrero

Professor Patricia Andrews, MA

02/12/19

Chapter 16 (Echoes through end)

The impact that the Atlantic Revolution was felt throughout the Western and Eastern Europe. 

Irregular revolts began to happen, expressing ideas of republicanism, greater social equality and 

liberation from foreign rule. But the Atlantic Revolution made a huge long term impact and it was 

much more global in nature. A long term effects is the abolition of slavery. The practice began from 

civilization  by the end of the 19th century. There was many different forces against slavery. 

Enlightenment thinkers whose ideas inspire the Atlantic Revolutions in the first place became 

increasingly more critical of slavery. Focusing on the slaves lack of liberty and equality. Then came 

in the protestant evangelicals who were daily activist and began the abolitionist movement of 

slavery. The movement began in US and England out of being devoted to the opposition of slavery. 

They publicized the evils of slavery and published memoirs by former slaves. They wanted to let 

people know the truth behind slavery. Not all of this situation was bad, there was also some good to 

it. The British led the way to tear down by abolishing the slave trade in 1807 and emancipating all 

their slaves in their empire in 1834. Latin American countries followed their way, and Russia 

emancipated the slavery in 1861. The resistance to abolition in some slave trading and owning 

societies no more so than in the Southern States in the US. The United States stands out as the only 

Nation, only Nation that had to fight a brutal and destructive Civil War from 1861 to 1865 to end 

slavery. Almost, but there were no changes to social or political emancipation. Jim Crow laws and 

public lynching were used as a way to keep black sharecroppers in check. Not only this new idea 

play an affect on countries but also the idea of a Nation. The revolutionary idea of sovereignty that 

political power rests in the hands of the people and not in the hands of the Kings, Queens, or 

Emperor. Nationalism required defining who was part of a nation and who was outside of the nation.