Foreword Preface.- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION PART TWO: DOCUMENTS -Defining Rights before 1789.- Natural Law as Defined by the Encyclopedia, 1755.- Religious Toleration Antislavery Agitation -The Beginnings of Agitation by Women for Rights Categories of Citizenship.- The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen 1789.- Debates over Citizenship and Rights during the Revolution.- The Poor and Propertied Religious and Other Minorities.- Free Blacks and Slaves Women Chronology.- Selected Bibliography.- Index.
