Chapter 25 “The Limits of Reason”
The Enlightenment way of thinking encouraged people to use their intelligence to better the world around them. This brought about the Industrial Revolution with inventions of new machinery and technology. Some inventions were the steam engine, the cotton gin, iron bridges, and the birth of factories. Unfortunately, the factories brought about unsafe working conditions, the mistreatment of children and women for labor, and shifts that lasted for twelve-fourteen hours. The Enlightenment was not without failures, the worst being “the inhumane activities of the transatlantic slave trade” (Fiero pg. 53). Olaudah Equiano wrote about his kidnapping and journey on slave ships in Travels. Phillis Wheatley was a slave
The Enlightenment way of thinking encouraged people to use their intelligence to better the world around them. This brought about the Industrial Revolution with inventions of new machinery and technology. Some inventions were the steam engine, the cotton gin, iron bridges, and the birth of factories. Unfortunately, the factories brought about unsafe working conditions, the mistreatment of children and women for labor, and shifts that lasted for twelve-fourteen hours. The Enlightenment was not without failures, the worst being “the inhumane activities of the transatlantic slave trade” (Fiero pg. 53). Olaudah Equiano wrote about his kidnapping and journey on slave ships in Travels. Phillis Wheatley was a slave