ENGL 3251H Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Olaudah Equiano, Slave Narrative, Political Spectrum
4 Dec 2018
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Rights of man recap + the interesting narrative of the life of olaudah equiano. These free markets will help society: paine"s idea was that commerce (if free) creates an egalitarian society, bringing people together into a social whole. And he clearly thinks that some social redistribution of wealth in necessary. Political spectrum in 1789: liberalism conservative, liberalism = radical or somebody who wanted to force change or progress, conservatism = somebody who wanted to slow change for fear of the loss of something important. Paine and his sense of inevitable progress that the american & french revolutions had begun : it is now towards the middle of february . i close the second part (273) Revolution as new natural law: revolution will always happen over time. Olaudah equiano: served in the english navy, fought against the french along the saint lawrence. Society for affecting the abolition of the slave trade (1787-1807: quakers played an important role on this abolition.
