analyzing a document about Simon Bolivar
The document is only three pages.
Here are the questions:
1. What is this document(s), and what is its historical context?
2. What is the content of the document(s)? Can you summarize its most important points in a paragraph?
3. How does the document reflect the spread of revolution in the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? To what extent would you characterize the content, or the author of the document, as “revolutionary”?
Simon Bolivar, “The Jamaica Letter (1815),”
see also Strayer, Ways of the World, Chapter 16 546-548, 552-555, it describes some background of Simon Bolivar.
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Answer PreviewThe ‘Jamaican letter’ was a letter that was written by Simon Bolivar in 1815 while he was in Jamaica. Through this letter, Simon Bolivar was responding to Henry Cullen who had sent a letter to Bolivar while he was in Jamaica. The document contained the thoughts of Bolivia about the Spanish America and also the Spanish Empire…
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