Using either stories:

Frederick Douglass, "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?"  https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/nations-story-%E2%80%9Cwhat-slave-fourth-july%E2%80%9D

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Olympe de Gouges, "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen"  https://revolution.chnm.org/d/293

evaluate how notions of citizenship during era of Atlantic Revolutions were framed as exclusionary and limited by the author. Who was excluded? Why? How did the excluded seek inclusion in the rights and responsibilities of citizenship? How do they try to convince us, the reader, that the full potential and promises of the revolution requires their inclusion in order to be completed and fulfilled?

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