The Declaration of the Rights of Man gave free-coloreds a universalist legal foundation
Evidence
Such support, and the positive response to the free people of color in the National Assembly, gave Raimond and Ogé hope. Many in Paris were receptive to their demands, which were a clear application of the universalism that had found expression in the Declaration of the Rights of Man. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 283
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Category: Causal Relationships