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A late-eighteenth-century transition - Change #3: New Attitudes About the World

Q: What was the first idea of certain global rights?

The French Revolution of 1789 would proclaim 'the rights of man' while the American revolution trumpeted that 'all men are created'

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What development in public opinion happened in the later eighteenth century?

A few sectors of what we now know as public opinion, initially in parts of Western Europe and North America, began to move toward a more inclusive definition of humanity in the later eighteenth century, which in turn would generate some strikingly new and potentially global standards for human treatment.

What was the status quo in terms of global humane standards before 1500? What changed after?

- The major world religions had recognized the spiritual potential in all humans, though this warred against the fact that each religion insisted on its own monopoly of truth, so that humans who happened to be in other religions were not spiritual equals.
- A movement that explicitly operated from a sense of basic standards that should cut across political and religious barriers and apply to distant people with whom one other tie - this was a global innovation.

What became the focus, from the 1780s onward, in dealing with people?

The focus was a new and unprecedented belief in the evils of enslaving other human beings and the moral responsibility of all decent people, whether involved in the slave system or not, to work for its abolition.

What generated the first potentially global crusade against slavery?

A combination of the unusually great exploitation in the Atlantic slave trade and the great American plantations - which brought some former slave traders and slaves on the attack - and what historians have described as a "new sensibility" born of variant strands of Christianity like Quakerism plus the ideals of the Enlightenment, began to generate the first potentially global crusade against a widespread human abuse.

What was the first idea of certain global rights?

The French Revolution of 1789 would proclaim "the rights of man" while the American revolution trumpeted that "all men are created"

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What development in public opinion happened in the later eighteenth century?

What was the status quo in terms of global humane standards before 1500? What changed after?

What became the focus, from the 1780s onward, in dealing with people?

What generated the first potentially global crusade against slavery?

What was the first idea of certain global rights?

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