Read this quote from the Declaration of the Rights of Man, written during the
French Revolution:
1. Men are born and remain free and equal in rights.
Social distinctions may be founded only upon the
general good.
2. The aim of all political association is the preservation
of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man.
These rights are liberty, property, security, and
resistance to oppression..
3. Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything
which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the
natural rights.
How did these ideas influence politics in the French colony of Saint-
Domingue?