SLAVES* TECHNOLOGY SLAVERY : GLOBAL PRIME ESSAY

ON THE WORLD STUDENTS SOCIETY - everybody is equal and everybody is free. 

You can practise and say what you like. Nothing is more welcomed than your criticism and opinion. And the policy here is '' just stay in the parameters of greatness.''

On The World Students Society - the exclusive and eternal ownership of every student in the world - the stark, and unvarnished truth is that we totally failed on inventions, innovations, participation, on humanitarian services and content contribution. The saying goes : '' The Mirror Image of Failure is Failure.''

According to one strand of history, slavery was abolished when Europeans found their conscience. According to another, it was abolished when it stopped being profitable.  Both approaches tend to underplay the significance of Black resistance.

In a revolution that upended ideas about white superiority that enslaved Black people of the French Caribbean colony Saint-Domingue liberated themselves to create Haiti, the first Black nation in the Americas.

The country was established in 1804, after more than a decade of armed struggle. This historic victory is part of a long series of violent rebellions that regularly shook the Caribbean islands and undermined the transatlantic slave economy.

These rebellions helped make the '' slavery question '' one of the most contested political issues of its time.

Philosophers and statesmen balanced the wrongs of enslavement against the huge profits to be made for individual men for individual merchants and for nations as a whole.

One after the other, European nations abolished first the trade in enslaved people and later slavery itself.

YET, even in abolition, European nations kept a close eye on their rivals. Britain's abolition of the slave trade was followed by the creation of a West Africa Squadron of the Royal Navy.

Its task was to interrupt the trade of other nations by capturing their slave ships and '' liberating '' their African captives.

These '' liberated Africans '' were given the choice of working for the Royal Navy or contributing to Britain's colonisation of Sierra Leone. None of them were allowed to return home.

While this was going on, romanticism spread throughout Europe. It was a movement that affected every aspect of culture - art, literature, music, philosophy, science and politics.

It centered on the idealisation of human freedom in all its forms. Old monarchies were to be swept away by democratic revolutions, state aesthetic forms by sublime feeling, constrictive gender norms by free love.

The romantic drive for freedom is generally interpreted in relation to the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution.

Both symbolise a shift of power from the old nobility to the new bourgeoisie [or middle classes] and a concurrent shift from agrarian to urban economies.

Romantic freedom is rarely read in the context of slavery question.

This Master Essay continues. The World Students Society thanks Mathelinda Nabugodi.