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First the slave trade

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

First the slave trade, then the institution of slavery itself, but they also abolished...

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library • 2017

first the slave trade, then the institution of slavery itself, but they also abolished monarchy and introduced a kind of form of clerical republicanism, and that's where the first Atlantic revolution idea comes in, is that this is not just a revolution that is about defining the bounds of liberty in the same way that the American revolution or the Haitian revolution or the French revolution is trying to define what liberty is

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first the slave trade,

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then the institution of slavery itself,

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but they also abolished monarchy

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and introduced a kind of form of clerical republicanism,

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and that's where the first

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Atlantic revolution idea comes in,

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is that this is not just a revolution

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that is about defining the bounds of liberty

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in the same way that the American revolution

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or the Haitian revolution or the French revolution

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is trying to define what liberty is.

Duration

27 seconds

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17

Timestamp in Movie

00:22:51

Uploaded

Oct 29, 2025

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Zipporah Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,PBS

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Movie Summary

A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.