Titles of Nobility Amendment

United States and the Constitution of Haiti formed a new government which had a clear and broad directive to use power in the public interest. Further, each document delineated the rights of citizens to equality and freedom, expressly forbid titles of nobility and privilege, and ensured that executive power was vested by the governed and not through inheritance. Each of these specific points highlight some of the most common grievances shared by colonists and the enslaved throughout the Atlantic…

their skin but by the content of their character” (King). If you replace the color oppression with the slavery oppression, Martin Luther King Jr’s speech states exactly what Spartacus is fighting for, a world where slaves won’t be judged by their title but rather “the content of their…