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I attend the talk on “the revolt against the Indies Compagny: Saint-Domingue, 1722-1724” by Malik W. Ghachem. The talk was very informational and interesting. I think that the most valuable thing that I learned from this talk was the extent to which people who partaked in slave trade viewed Monopoly as a threat. Another thing is that this tells us a lot about how much slavery was an economic system. The speaker touched on the commercial interest of slavery, monopoly as a threat to self-determination, the similarities between the tea party uprising and the revolt against the Indies Compagny.
The speaker spoke of the commercial interest of the Indies company which was owned by John Locke at the time of the uprising. Because the Indies company …show more content…

Although there are other suspected causes of the boston tea party, this seems to be the prevailing narrative. Just like narratives around the boston tea party, there are also narratives around the Haitian revolution. The Haitian revolution is a very meaningful revolution in history because it is the first successful slave revolution in the America. The main narrative is that the revolution happened to end slavery. However, this talk gave me another perspective to consider. The revolt against the indies company was not just a revolt to end the exportation of slaves, but a revolt to prevent the indies company from having a sole company of indigo and other things on the island. The idea that the fear of the restriction and lack of self-determination from slaves and freed people led to the revolution is an idea that I thought was absolutely fascinating. It goes to tell you that freedom can mean many different things. For the slaves, it was literal freedom and the ability to own their own body and not be a property of someone else. For some other people, it was the ability to have their business and not be restricted by a company that takes over the market. In many ways this is very relevant to this day where we see modern day slavery through capitalism, where very few people have the ability to own most of all riches, while enriching themselves off the back of others

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