Enlightenment thinkers argued slaves had the right to violent resistance
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- United slave resistance disabled whites’ power to discipline plantations (similarity 0.86)
- Planters were most shocked by the rebellion of their most trusted slaves. (similarity 0.85)
- Eighteenth-century slave revolts were led mainly by African-born slaves (similarity 0.83)
- The antislavery universalism of Grégoire inadvertently fueled planters’ fears of slave revolt (similarity 0.82)
- Free men of color policed slaves, creating a reliance that threatened revolt. (similarity 0.82)
- Marx’s blind spot on slavery descended directly from Aristotle’s philosophy of slaves (similarity 0.81)
- Nonviolent mass action handed liberation to the petit bourgeoisie (similarity 0.81)
- Hegel’s master-slave dialectic drew on news of the Haitian Revolution (similarity 0.81)
- The ignoble savage concept helped launch Enlightenment theories of social development (similarity 0.80)
- Slaves who fought for France at Cartagena gained their freedom (similarity 0.80)
- Historians dispute whether slave labor drove capitalist growth (similarity 0.80)
- Engels’s defenses of Marxism were trapped by the very concepts they defended (similarity 0.80)
- French indiscriminate killing drove slaves toward the insurgent camps (similarity 0.80)
- French colonial minister rejected liberty for Black people as premature. (similarity 0.79)