Practice question · True or false
Palmer and Godechot’s "Atlantic revolution" framework has been criticised for the marginal place it gives Haiti.
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- Ask which of the four Atlantic revolutions abolished slavery.
- Trouillot’s objection is precisely about what the framework leaves out.
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True
Why
True. A framework built around a shared democratic movement has difficulty accommodating a revolution whose central demand, the abolition of slavery, the other three either avoided or actively resisted. Trouillot pressed the point further: the silence is not an oversight but a structural feature of how the period was narrated.
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