Using textbook information and your own thoughts, identify one KEY emphasis and philosophical idea common to all Enlightenment thinkers. Then find one example from this Unit’s primary sources of that idea.
category 1: Political Revolutions (chapter 16)
- “Declaration of the Rights of Man” (1789): http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp
- “Declaration of the Rights of Women” by Olympe de Gouge (1791): https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1791degouge1.asp
- An appeal from slaves to the Governor of Massachusetts (1774): https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1774slavesappeal.asp
- The Haitian Declaration of Independence (1804): http://www.nathanielturner.com/haitiandeclarationofindependence1804.htm
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