Planters feared the Declaration of Rights would reach the colonies

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• Planters were most shocked by the rebellion of their most trusted slaves. (similarity 0.83)
• Planters saw the Declaration of the Rights of Man as a threat to slavery. (similarity 0.83)
• Some slaves demanded liberty by citing the Rights of Man. (similarity 0.80)
• France could not maintain free and slave colonies within sight of each other (similarity 0.80)
• Historians should read along the colonial grain before reading against it (similarity 0.79)
• The antislavery universalism of Grégoire inadvertently fueled planters’ fears of slave revolt (similarity 0.79)
• French colonial minister rejected liberty for Black people as premature. (similarity 0.79)
• United slave resistance disabled whites’ power to discipline plantations (similarity 0.78)
• Valck’s critique of planters still affirmed colonial racial hierarchies (similarity 0.78)
• Restoring human rights requires restoring national rights, not abstract declarations. (similarity 0.78)