Recent Reading: The American Revolution
I have watched a good part of the PBS television documentary and have been reading the companion book: The American Revolution: An intimate history by Geoffrey Ward and Ken Burns. Today I came across this passage and spent several minutes thinking about what it means. And slave rebellions continued in the Caribbean, most dramatically in the French colony of St. Domingue, where the Haitian Revolution would create the first nation-state in the Americas to abolish slavery. The fundamental question raised by those revolutionary struggles is still with us: How do we establish governments that truly recognize equality and the entitlement to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all? No revolution has settled the question. The struggle against inequality and tyranny remains a challenge for every generation (p. 407). Have you watched the series or read the book? What have you been reading and watching?
