5) WHAT WAS THE ROLE OF CAPITALISM IN STIMULATING THE EUROPEAN DESIRE FOR COLONIES?
The Europeans were looking for raw materials to feed their industrial revolution, (silver, gold, iron, timber, diamonds, etc.) and to exploit African and Asian peoples and resources to farm cash crops for profit and export. Africa and Asia had the labor, markets and land resources that could be colonized, most often with superior firepower, and turned into hard labor export colonies with forced cultivation of cash export crops to feed the European capital markets. The forced cultivation of cash crops was accomplished with iron fisted and brutal tactics of the colonizers, including beatings, mutilations, and death. This for profit export farming took away land and labor for local food production and developed profits for the colonizing countries, and corporations.
6) DISCUSS THE EVENTS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION.
This was the only successful Slave Rebellion, and it was motivated by the French and Atlantic Revolutions. These revolutionary ideals included greater social equality, and national liberation from foreign rule. The revolution of the Haitian slaves helped bring an end to slavery elsewhere. "The dramatically successful Haitian Revolution was followed by three major rebellions in the British West Indies, all of which were harshly crushed, in the early 19th century. The brutality in which the the revolts were suppressed appalled British public opinion. Growing numbers of the British public came to feel that slavery was not only morally wrong, and economically inefficient, but also politically unwise". (Strayer 2009)
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