Assignment task: Revolutions are morally complex political phenomena. When they succeed, they establish free societies and usher in new eras. Oftentimes, however, many revolutions raise thorny moral issues. While it is duly celebrated as a beacon light of liberty, the American Revolution also preserved slavery and ruthlessly disempowered Native Americans. Despite its promising beginning and lofty ideals, the French revolution morphed into a reign of terror and unspeakable violence as the promise of democracy quickly faltered. Likewise, while the Haitian revolution abolished slavery and proclaimed a new dawn of freedom it failed to sustain democracy and prosperity.
If asked to do so, how would you retrospectively justify the American revolution knowing that it failed to achieve full inclusion and only instituted a republic for the few, not the many, or the French and Haitian ones that promptly devoured 'their own children', given their frightening human costs (i.e. death toll) and failure to sustain democracy?