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First election (post acts of union) through to women gaining the vote in the UK was about 4.5 of your lifetimes.

by mhh__ 5y ago

dotancohen 5y ago
My grandfather was a slave, he passed only 15 years ago.
- lostlogin 5y ago
  Is there a description of his life you are able to share?
  - MrsPeaches 5y ago
    Not OP but there are some interviews on YouTube called Voices from the Days of Slavery, where former slaves from the US talk about their lives as slaves. The opening 30s of the interview with a former slave Fountain Hughes always sends shivers down my spine: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4IfIDrQxI0o https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4IfIDrQxI0o
- _dain_ 5y ago
  Your grandfather was 141 years old? (Or from a country which abolished slavery later, like Brazil?)
epicureanideal 5y ago
Although we should also note that most men also didn't have the right to vote for a couple of those lifetimes [1]. If I understand correctly, only a minority percentage of property owning men could vote before 1918. And from all men being able to vote to all women being able to vote was a span of 10 years, so 0.2 of GP's lifetime. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z9hnn39/revision/2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z9hnn39/revision/2
- tomnipotent 5y ago
  The French Revolution and end of feudalism happened in the lifetime just before the electric motor. It's easy to forget that the middle class is a very recent invention.
  - rsj_hn 5y ago
    The Roman Empire had a middle class. The middle ages had a middle class. In early civilization, during cattle culture, there was a middle class. But historically middle classes consisted of small landowners in the countryside. What you are probably referring to is a large urban middle class consisting of landless skilled workers, which requires modernity, as all previous middle classes were built around rural land ownership, or going back to pre-agricultural periods, ownership of cattle. The key ingredient of the French revolution is the battle between rural and urban, between the farmer and the craftsmen, with the craftsmen gaining ascendancy over and eventually slaughtering the farmers.

First election (post acts of union) through to women gaining the vote in the UK was about 4.5 of your lifetimes.

by mhh__ 5y ago

First election (post acts of union) through to women gaining the vote in the UK was about 4.5 of your lifetimes.

dotancohen 5y ago

My grandfather was a slave, he passed only 15 years ago.

lostlogin 5y ago
Is there a description of his life you are able to share?
- MrsPeaches 5y ago
  Not OP but there are some interviews on YouTube called Voices from the Days of Slavery, where former slaves from the US talk about their lives as slaves. The opening 30s of the interview with a former slave Fountain Hughes always sends shivers down my spine: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4IfIDrQxI0o https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4IfIDrQxI0o
_dain_ 5y ago
Your grandfather was 141 years old? (Or from a country which abolished slavery later, like Brazil?)

epicureanideal 5y ago

Although we should also note that most men also didn't have the right to vote for a couple of those lifetimes [1]. If I understand correctly, only a minority percentage of property owning men could vote before 1918. And from all men being able to vote to all women being able to vote was a span of 10 years, so 0.2 of GP's lifetime. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z9hnn39/revision/2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z9hnn39/revision/2

tomnipotent 5y ago
The French Revolution and end of feudalism happened in the lifetime just before the electric motor. It's easy to forget that the middle class is a very recent invention.
- rsj_hn 5y ago
  The Roman Empire had a middle class. The middle ages had a middle class. In early civilization, during cattle culture, there was a middle class. But historically middle classes consisted of small landowners in the countryside. What you are probably referring to is a large urban middle class consisting of landless skilled workers, which requires modernity, as all previous middle classes were built around rural land ownership, or going back to pre-agricultural periods, ownership of cattle. The key ingredient of the French revolution is the battle between rural and urban, between the farmer and the craftsmen, with the craftsmen gaining ascendancy over and eventually slaughtering the farmers.