As a society, humans in the Western World have evolved morally, physically, emotionally, and economically. Major events have impacted our outlook on life, and each problem solved has put us further ahead. Most shockingly of all, our thoughts on human rights and equality have evolved drastically since the late 1500s, and exceeded others morality in a sense of the modern day era. In the time period beginning in the early 1500s, we didn’t see many of our basic rights being played out into the work force, or any living standard for that matter. Slaves were being abused, wars were being fought, and people overall were big on discriminating everyone and everything that wasn’t just like them. With these with lack of rights comes rebellion, and a
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Several documents and implied banishing’s later, people were talking about Luther and his acts, and the first sights of free practiced religion were being spotted. Martin Luther encouraged people that God would want them to interpret the bible on their own, and inspired many to consider discontinuing such actions that they didn’t even believe in. People were beginning to seek salvation in new and interesting ways, and the journey to human rights had just begun.
We then move into the age of the Enlightenment, starting off with the transportation and mistreatment of people of color. The idea of enlightenment, meaning everyone is able to act, think, and speak freely, was a new suggestion that no one had ever thought to bring up before.
German Philosopher Immanuel Kant described Enlightenment as “man 's release from his self-incurred tutelage,” and describes the word “tutelage” as “man 's inability to make use of his understanding …show more content…
Social distinctions may be based only on common utility,” wasn’t exactly meant for blacks at first, but anyone who read this, including blacks, could have easily mistaken it literally. It was easily confusable, and there was much talk about it at first. It was preposterous to think that people of color “were born equal” and many thought that setting them free was severely unfair. The slaves in Haiti hear this, and are engulfed into a massive storm of hope. Freedom was just over the horizon, and they planned to obtain it. This is when we see the first real slave revolution take place. The whites were extremely outnumbered on the island, and after a brutal victory, the people of color owned their first independently run civilization, no longer in captivity of the white men. Historically these actions were extremely important, because after the revolution, there was a chain event of changes, all looking bright for the people fallen victim to discrimination. Next is the time period of Industrialization. When things started to become more industrial, a migration of people caused an uprise in the manufacturing and purchasing of products. People wanted to move to where the goods were, so things became more urbanized. With this came a new aspect of life: being able to have more than what you need. Because of the ease of production, things were cheaper, causing many people to buy things other than
Several documents and implied banishing’s later, people were talking about Luther and his acts, and the first sights of free practiced religion were being spotted. Martin Luther encouraged people that God would want them to interpret the bible on their own, and inspired many to consider discontinuing such actions that they didn’t even believe in. People were beginning to seek salvation in new and interesting ways, and the journey to human rights had just begun.
We then move into the age of the Enlightenment, starting off with the transportation and mistreatment of people of color. The idea of enlightenment, meaning everyone is able to act, think, and speak freely, was a new suggestion that no one had ever thought to bring up before.
German Philosopher Immanuel Kant described Enlightenment as “man 's release from his self-incurred tutelage,” and describes the word “tutelage” as “man 's inability to make use of his understanding …show more content…
Social distinctions may be based only on common utility,” wasn’t exactly meant for blacks at first, but anyone who read this, including blacks, could have easily mistaken it literally. It was easily confusable, and there was much talk about it at first. It was preposterous to think that people of color “were born equal” and many thought that setting them free was severely unfair. The slaves in Haiti hear this, and are engulfed into a massive storm of hope. Freedom was just over the horizon, and they planned to obtain it. This is when we see the first real slave revolution take place. The whites were extremely outnumbered on the island, and after a brutal victory, the people of color owned their first independently run civilization, no longer in captivity of the white men. Historically these actions were extremely important, because after the revolution, there was a chain event of changes, all looking bright for the people fallen victim to discrimination. Next is the time period of Industrialization. When things started to become more industrial, a migration of people caused an uprise in the manufacturing and purchasing of products. People wanted to move to where the goods were, so things became more urbanized. With this came a new aspect of life: being able to have more than what you need. Because of the ease of production, things were cheaper, causing many people to buy things other than