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Part One: Primary Source Analysis, 50 points) Read the primary source listed for Chapter 15,
Reordering the World (On the Rights of Women, An Egyptian Reaction to French Occupation,
Haitian Declaration of Independence, what to the Slave is the Fourth of July?). Select 2 of the 4
sources and respond to the following questions. Do not use direct quotes in your responses –
please paraphrase or summarize the sources in your analysis. Number your answers 1-3.
1) Who are the authors and what are each of your selected sources about?
2) Analyze the role of Enlightenment ideas in your selected sources. Do these documents
challenge those ideas or seek to apply them more fully? Explain and use relevant examples.
3) Evaluate the degree to which these documents make universal arguments and the degree to
which their claims are rooted in location, traditions, communities, and beliefs. Explain.
1.
My first source author is Mary Wollstonecraft, this is about how she believed that women
could be equal to men in society and should have equal education. The second source
author is Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who was a former slave. This is about what the
citizens felt and what they wanted to do to get away from the French.
2.
Both of them apply the ideas of the Enlightenment. For example, the document On the
Rights of Women says “These may be termed Utopian dreams. Thanks to that Being who
impressed them on my soul, and gave me sufficient strength of mind to dare to exert my
own reason, till, becoming dependent only on him for the support of my virtue, I view,
with indignation, the mistaken notions that enslave my sex.”
1
Another example of the
Enlightenment ideas in the documents is in the Haitian Declaration of Independence
which says, “In fighting for your liberty, I was working for my own happiness. Before
consolidating it with laws that will guarantee your free individuality, your leaders, who I
have assembled here, and I, owe you the final proof of our devotion. . . .Swear, finally, to
pursue forever the traitors and enemies of your independence.”
2
3.
In Mary Wollstonecraft’s On the Rights of Women the arguments are more universal
because she’s fighting for every woman to have these rights and to be able to feel and be
treated equally to men, whereas in Jean-Jacques Dessalines’s Haitian Declaration of
Independence, their claims are for their location, communities, and beliefs since they’re
just fighting for Hati’s independence, not the independence of the entire world.
1 Mary Wollstonecraft, On the Rights of Women, pg. 645
2 Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian Declaration of Independence, pg. 648
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