My reviewer agrees with my intended edits and understands how important this article is to understanding the Cuban Revolution. I will continue to go down the path I originally have set down on since my reviewer agrees with my intended edits.
I picked this article because it is a very interesting topic. The page itself is very thin, but it does have a disclaimer at the top about improvements with a translation from the Spanish version that has more information. Everything in the article is relevant to the topic, there is nothing distracting or out of place in terms of relevant information.
I would say that this article is neutral on a non-neutral subject. The article only talks about who the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo are, which showcases the brutality of the Dirty War. The article itself does not have a stance. the are not viewpoints under or over-represented. Many of the links are from news stories and articles written by journalists and the links do work. The sources do support the claims of the article. It seems that each fact is supported, but I could be missing some. The information comes from mostly news sites like previously stated. The bias is supporting the Grandmothers it is not noted. There is a lot of information that can be added, but that would require a translation from the Spanish article. There is not much talking, just fixing of links. The article is rated high and is a part of the Argentina Portal and the WikiProject Argentina. We acknowledge bias.
You are invited to attend the last Café Bob of the semester on Thursday, December 7 at 11 a.m. in KAU Tower. Come enjoy a donut and beverage and hear students from History 201 “The Craft of Public History” share their virtual exhibition on nineteenth-century gender roles. In particular, they will explore how the influence of scientific and medical popular thought, combined with existing Christian religious ideas from the 1830s–1890s, contributed to the reinforcement and reformulation of gender roles and sexual freedom. The exhibition uses biographies, pamphlets, medical manuals, and etiquette books—culled from the Josephine Long Wishart Collection: Mother, Home and Heaven and housed in Special Collections at the College of Wooster Archives—in order to shed light on the progressive and conversely, stagnant, gender expectations.
Hope to see you there!
Class, I apologize for the delay but, here is the class notes post on the class meeting before we were dismissed for break.
To begin class, Professor Holt did an overview of our material culture audio slideshow project that is due Friday. A few tips the class gave is to provide multiple historical aspects of the debate on your topic, use lots of images to keep your audience engaged, explicitly state your thesis in the beginning of your slideshow. Professor Holt posted a link to the class website to assist anyone having issues with recording, and she also passed out an iMovie handout as well. The slideshow should be no longer than 5 minutes and the last slide should give credit to the sources used for your argument.
For LA in the News, Fred brought to us a story about a team of archeologists potentially discovering a cannonball from a Spanish galleon called the, “San Francisco”, which sank off the coast of Japan in 1609. Though the archeology team does not definitively know of the cannonball’s origin at the moment, the discovery itself displays the vastness and importance of trade routes during the colonial era. Trade routes and voyages helped developed relations between nations that didn’t usually have many encounters because communication across boundaries was not as accessible as it is today. Japan assisting the crew of the “San Francisco”, and Spain establishing a relationship with Japan in appreciation for their efforts is an example.
Our class discussion focused on the Haitian Revolution. We stated the Haitian Revolution is important to study because it is the first and only successful slave revolt, it displayed the oppression of colonialism on indigenous and African persons. The Haitian Revolution also occurred during what is called, The Age of Revolution, where revolutions like, the American, French, and Haitian revolutions occurring almost simultaneously with the Enlightenment during the late eighteenth century. Enlightenment ideals influenced the ideologies of revolutionaries in each revolution.
The Haitian Revolution occurred due to tension between a small economic elite. French colonists would form families with enslaved women, the child would be given a French education and become a powerful, free Haitian citizen, forming this economic elite. There was a stigma against acknowledging blackness on the island because majority of African people on the island were enslaved, there is even anti-Haitian rhetoric in the Dominican Republic today.
Race is an important factor of the Haitian Revolution because it is the first instance where African slaves seize the power from their European oppressors. The Haitian Revolution influenced slaves in African nations and persons in other states to earn their independence by forcing imperialist forces from their colonies. The Haitian revolutionaries were a group brought to the island with the purpose to be exploited and yet they overcame the odds and won their freedom.
We began analyzing primary sources and source number sixteen states diplomacy was attempted between opposing groups before the conflict resorted to violence. The source also conveys, children born in the New World began to feel discriminated against, even though they were free citizens. This source provides another perspective on the revolution and a broader understanding of the importance of social status and its impact on the causality of the revolution.
Coverage of the Haitian Revolution by other nations reveal the interests of the nation or groups within the nation, through their writing on the revolution. Slave states and societies, like South Africa, Brazil, and the Southern U.S., were afraid of slave revolutions occurring in their lands. States and groups that were anti-slavery like, the abolitionist movements in Britain and the Northern U.S., displayed that war could occur in their land as well if slavery continues.
What contributed to the victory of the Haitian slaves were their numbers, disease, and geography. Yellow fever spread across the French troops, killing hundreds. The Haitian slaves were immune to the disease, giving them a biological advantage and causing Napoleon to retreat from the island. The slaves knew the jungle better than the French soldiers, whom may have never been to the New World until the revolution began, and used their numbers and guerrilla tactics to defeat the French.
Lower class white people in Saint Dominique were also tired of the oppression and upper class rule that they faced. They were looking for a true democracy that was not centered around a single ruler. Saint Domingo was completely separate place than France, and should therefore be governed differently. The island should represented by the people who live there. The time has based where slavery is relied upon, and it it is a new day and age. Slaves and mulattos have every right to seek revenge for their horrendous previous treatment.
Question: What divisions were there among the blacks of Saint Domingue during the rebellions?
Answer:
During the revolt in 1791 one of the biggest divisions that we see among the rebels is over the question of what to do with the whites of the island. Some, such as Jeannot, who is mentioned in In the Camps of the Insurgents, wanted to kill all whites on the island, fearing that any who survived would try to reinstate slavery. Others, such as Jean-Francois, who is also mentioned in that source, were more lenient towards the whites, preferring to treat his prisoners humanely. During the revolt in 1793 we see similar divisions rise again. The rebels who were supported by the Spanish wanted total independence from France and all whites to be removed from the island, as can be seen in Insurgent Responses to Emancipation. Opposed to them were some free blacks and people of mixed race who supported continuing to live under the French republic as equals to the whites. There were also divisions between monarchists and republicans among both blacks and whites. This conflict mirrored the one going on in France at the time, where some fought to keep the monarchy in power, while others fought to establish a republic. The black rebels who were supported by the Spanish seem to favor monarchy over a republic, although they valued independence highest of all it seems. Those who supported the republic were a mixture of whites, blacks, and mixed race people who at least claimed to want a society where the races were equal. Finally, the white monarchists opposed the republican revolutionaries, but tried to win over the black rebels by playing on their monarchist sympathies. Evidence of all of this can be seen in the Decree of General Liberty, where the republicans try to win over blacks by promising them equality, while also saying that monarchist promises of freedom were false.