Planters saw the Declaration of the Rights of Man as a threat to slavery.

Evidence

This was precisely what the planters who had eschewed representation in the Estates General had feared: that revolutionary principles accepted in Paris would be applied to the slave societies in the Caribbean. Despite provisions accepting “social distinctions” and declaring property a “sacred and inviolable right,” many planters saw the universalist Declaration as a clear threat to slavery, reacting as if it were a disease to be quarantined. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 268