DESSALINES Liberty or Death DE GOUGES The Rights of Women THOMAS JEFFERSON US Declaration of Independence GROUP AUTHORSHIP Declaration of the Rights of man and of the citizen Select two which have the most in common in terms of content. Compare them in terms of similarities and differences. Tell what makes these two align so well with one another even though they deal with different societies.

I would argue that the two documents that have the most in common are the speech by Dessalines and the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen by Olympe de Gouges. Both Dessalines, as a black man in Saint-Domingue, and de Gouges, as a woman in France, were marginalized members of their societies. They were, that is, oppressed. Dessalines was writing in 1804, after the Republic of Haiti had been established with him as its leader, but the themes he is addressing are those of racial subjugation. He describes the need for unity after having "exterminated" the "true cannibals." Under French rule, blacks had been "mutilated victims of the cupidity of white Frenchmen," who were a group of "bloodsuckers . . . fattened by our toil." De Gouges, on the other hand, is writing about the subjugation of women. She adapts the language of the Declaration of the Rights of Man to focus on the injustices suffered by women. In a searing postscript, she characterizes the treatment of women under the old regime (the one overthrown by the Revolution) as "vicious" and "guilty" and calls for women to demand recognition of their rights under the Revolutionary society. Jefferson's Declaration voices some of the universal rights referenced in the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, but it is not generally concerned with women's equality and only mentions African Americans in the context of the "domestic insurrections" King George had supposedly encouraged. Both Dessalines and de Gouges are members of oppressed groups who demanded equality. 
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