Some slaves demanded liberty by citing the Rights of Man.

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• Enlightenment thinkers argued slaves had the right to violent resistance (similarity 0.86)
• Free men of color policed slaves, creating a reliance that threatened revolt. (similarity 0.86)
• Slaves who fought for France at Cartagena gained their freedom (similarity 0.84)
• Eighteenth-century slave revolts were led mainly by African-born slaves (similarity 0.84)
• Restoring human rights requires restoring national rights, not abstract declarations. (similarity 0.84)
• Historians dispute whether slave labor drove capitalist growth (similarity 0.83)
• Marx’s blind spot on slavery descended directly from Aristotle’s philosophy of slaves (similarity 0.83)
• Planters were most shocked by the rebellion of their most trusted slaves. (similarity 0.83)
• United slave resistance disabled whites’ power to discipline plantations (similarity 0.83)
• The slave trial became a proxy for who should control the Sudan. (similarity 0.83)
• Theft laws criminalized former slaves’ access to land’s spontaneous fruits. (similarity 0.82)
• Sudanese slaves in Egypt became a flashpoint in British-Egyptian disputes over independence. (similarity 0.82)
• French colonial minister rejected liberty for Black people as premature. (similarity 0.82)
• Circassian slave supply collapsed as African slavery drew British abolitionist scrutiny (similarity 0.81)
• Slave origins determined which language hierarchies they occupied in Egypt (similarity 0.81)