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Human Rights in World History -- HIST262: The French Revolution and Human Rights

Group 1: Core Documents

The Social Contract
J.J. Rousseau

Group 2: Documents on Religion and the Catholic Church

Group 3: Documents on Governance

Group 4: Documents on Active/Passive Citizenship

Group 4: Documents on Slavery

The Code Noir (The Black Code)
Antislavery Agitation: Abbe Raynal, Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, 1770
The Abolition of Negro Slavery or Means for Ameliorating Their Lot, 1789
Memoir in Favor of the People of Color or Mixed-Race of Saint Domingue, 1789
Abbe Gregoire
Motion Made by Vincent Oge the Younger to the Assembly of Colonists, 1789
Letter from Monseron de L'aunay to the Marquis de Condorcet, President of the Society of Friends of the Blacks, 1789
Speech for the Colonial Committee of the National Assembly, 1790
Barnave
Discussion of Troubles in the Colonies
Kersaint

Group 4: Documents on Women

Emile and Social Contract, 1762
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Petition of Women of the Third Estate to the King, 1789
Women's Petition to the National Assembly
On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship, 1790
Condorcet
Discourse on the Injustice of the Laws in Favor of Men at the Expense of Women, 1790
Etta Palm D'Aelders
Women's Participation in Riots Over the Price of Sugar, 1792
On the Influence of the Revolution on Women
Prudhomme
Speech at City Hall Denouncing Women's Political Activism, 1793
Chaumette

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