<P> The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen follows the seventeen articles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen point for point and has been described by Camille Naish as "almost a parody...of the original document". The first article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen proclaims that "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights . Social distinctions may be based only on common utility ." The first article of Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen replied: "Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights . Social distinctions may only be based on common utility". </P> <P> De Gouges also draws attention to the fact that under French law women were fully punishable, yet denied equal rights, declaring "Women have the right to mount the scaffold, they must also have the right to mount the speaker's rostrum". </P> <P> The declaration did not revoke the institution of slavery, as lobbied for by Jacques - Pierre Brissot's Les Amis des Noirs and defended by the group of colonial planters called the Club Massiac because they met at the Hôtel Massiac . Despite the lack of explicit mention of slavery in the Declaration, slave uprisings in Saint - Domingue in the Haitian Revolution took inspiration from its words, as discussed in C.L.R. James' history of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins . </P> <P> Deplorable conditions for the thousands of slaves in Saint - Domingue, the most profitable slave colony in the world, led to the uprisings which would be known as the first successful slave revolt in the New World . Slavery in the French colonies was abolished by the Convention dominated by the Jacobins in 1794 . However, Napoleon reinstated it in 1802 . In 1804, the colony of Saint - Domingue became an independent state, the Republic of Haiti . </P>

Who were excluded from the declaration of independence