What France and Haiti Saw in the Declaration That America Didn’t

    France and Haiti saw powerful possibilities in the Declaration’s language about rights and equality.

    France and Haiti saw powerful possibilities in the Declaration’s language about rights and equality, but those possibilities felt threatening inside the early United States. 

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