Although the French Revolution was at the heart of the Enlightenment, similar ideas served as driving forces of the American, Haitian, and Latin American Revolutions as well. The revolutionaries agreed that life, liberty, and property should be considered natural rights, emphasizing property as a main source of inequality among man, and constructed new governments based on popularized Enlightenment ideas. ... While the revolutionaries in Latin America struggled with slave-like treatment from their superiors, the US and Haiti recognized the noxious effects of slavery and abolished it in their...

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In England in the 17th century, during the Great Rebellion, Englishmen in the New Model Army of Parliament began to debate liberal ideas concerning extension of the suffrage, parliamentary rule, the responsibilities of government, and freedom of conscience. The controversies of this period produced ...

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