The duration of the slave trade was approximately four centuries. Those victimized were the millions of black African men, women and children brutally assaulted, torn from their homes, deported to several regions and continents and sold as slaves. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO the slave trade was “the greatest tragedies in the history of humanity in terms of scale and duration.” According to Johnson’s argument, the emancipation of freedom began with the slaveholders and enslaved. The initial phase began when the slaves organized a series of insurgencies to form a disruptive path to the Europeans and Americans. This particular event slowly revamped the Atlantic culture. The Haitian Revolution began to change its foundational role by governing institutional to a pragmatic social form.
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Johnson is, did the black revolt trigger eventual path towards freedom or was it the civil war that ultimately began to change the course of history and freedom for the once
Johnson is, did the black revolt trigger eventual path towards freedom or was it the civil war that ultimately began to change the course of history and freedom for the once