The popularity of the gutenburg press in Europe made books more accessible and motivated people to want to learn how to read
The eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophers believed that society could best achieve progress through "rational thought and pragmatism", since these thinkers called into question the blind faith many people had in monarchy and God.
<span>Vincent Ogé, Jean François, Toussaint Louverture, Sonthonax, André Rigaud, Moise, Alexandre Pétion, Jean-Jacques Dessalines. </span>