Chapter 15: Reordering the World, 17501850
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The rhetoric of freedom.
The new "rhetoric of freedom" emanating from the ideas of the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century world produced revolutions and revolts as various communities tried to put the rhetoric into place. Men and women in the United States, France, and Haiti spearheaded huge social and political revolutions as they overthrew established power and brought about new legal and political guidelines as they strove to create a more free society. But in each place, questions arose as to how far freedom should be extended.
Analyze the following documents keeping the follow questions in mind. How do these documents define citizenship in the new political communities? Did this citizenship extent to women? To what extent was the rhetoric of freedom reserved for Europeans as opposed to Africans and other non European members of these new communities?
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, 1791
- The Bill of Rights 1791
- On Slavery, 1782
- Haitian Republic Constitution Of 1801
- Olympe de Gouge: Declaration of the Rights of Women, 1791
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