Description: Foreword Preface PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: THE REVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS OF HUMAN RIGHTS PART TWO. THE DOCUMENTS 1. Defining Rights before 1789 Natural Law as Defined by the Encyclopedia 1. Diderot, "Natural Law" 1755 Religious Toleration 2. Voltaire, Treatise on Toleration, 1763 3. Edict of Toleration, November 1787 4. Letter from Rabaut Saint Etienne on the Edict of Toleration, December 6, 1787 5. Zalkind Hourwitz, Vindication of the Jews, 1789 Antislavery Agitation 6. Abb Raynal, From the Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, 1770 7. Condorcet, Reflections on Negro Slavery, 1781 8. Society of the Friends of Blacks, Discourse on the Necessity of Establishing in Paris a Society for. . .the Abolition of the Slave Trade and of Negro Slavery, 1788 Women Begin to Agitate for Rights 9. "Petition of Women of the Third Estate to the King," January 1, 1789 Categories of Citizenship 10. Abb Sieys, What Is the Third Estate?, January, 1789 2. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789 Debates about the Declaration of Rights, July and August 1789 11. Marquis de Lafayette, July 11, 1789 12. Duke Mathieu de Montmorency, August 1, 1789 13. Malouet, August 1, 1789 The Declaration 14. "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen," August 26, 1789 3. Debates over Citizenship and Rights during the Revolution The Poor and the Propertied 15. Abb Sieys, Preliminary to the French Constitution, August 1789 16. Thouret, Report on the Basis of Political Eligibility, September 29, 1789 17. Speech of Robespierre Denouncing the New Conditions of Eligibility, October 22, 1789 Religious Minorities and Questionable Professions The First Controversies 18. Brunet de Latuque, December 21, 1789 19. Count de Clermont Tonnerre, December 23, 1789 20. Abb Maury, December 23, 1789 21. Letter from French Actors, December 24, 1789 22. Prince de Broglie, December 24, 1789 The Jewish Question 23. Petition of the Jews of Paris, Alsace, and Lorraine to the National Assembly, January 28, 1790 24. La Fare, Bishop Nancy, Opinion on the Admissibility of Jews to Full Civil and Political Rights, Spring 1790 25. Admission of Jews to Rights of Citizenship, September 27, 1791 Free Blacks and Slaves 26. The Abolition of Negro Slavery or Means for Ameliorating Their Lot, 1789 27. Motion Made by Vincent Og the Youger to the Assembly of Colonists, 1789 28. Abb Grgoire, Memoir in Favor of the People of Color or Mixed-Race of Saint Domingue, 1789 29. Society of the Friends of Blacks, Address to the National Assembly in Favor of the Abolition of Slave Trade, February 5, 1790 30. Speech of Barnave, March 8, 1790 31. Kersaint, Discussion of Troubles in the Colonies, March 28, 1792 32. Decree of the National Convention of February 4, 1794, Abolishing Slavery in All the Colonies 33. Speech of Chaumette Celebrating the Abolition of Slavery, February 18, 1794 Women 34. Condorcet, "On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship," July 1790 35. Etta Palm D''Aelders, Discourse on the Injustice of Laws in Favor of Men, at the Expense of Women, December 30, 1790 36. Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of Rights of Woman, September 1791 37. Prudhomme, "On the Influence of the Revolution on Women," February 12, 1791 38. Discussion of Citizenship under the Proposed New Constitution, April 29, 1793 39. Discussion of Women''s Political Clubs and Their Suppression, October 29-30, 1793 40. Chaumette, Speech at the General Council of the City Government of Paris Denouncing Women''s Political Activism, November 17, 1793 APPENDICES Chronology Questions for Consideration Selected Bibliography Index

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