The Declaration spoke of the universal rights of 'Man', yet in practice, it created a citizen defined as male and free. Women like Olympe de Gouges, who demanded their 'Rights of Woman', were silenced, and the colonies' enslaved were deemed property, not men. We must confront this, for a legacy built on such exclusion is a fragile one. I see it in my own work on the land reforms—the lofty principle written on paper, and the different, harder truth in the field.
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