The Haitians wanted an end to the way they would be treated by the French, and The Haitians argued "Live independent or die" (The Haitian Declaration of Independence), and argued "Team Liberty", which meant independence and freedom. The People's charter states things such as embracing the people of suffrage, equally representations, and annual parliaments. All in all, one thing that all of these texts had in common, in respect to the working-class history, is that they all seem to be seeking their rights, freedoms, and to be independent.
The Declarations of the rights of man and the citizen is about the human civil rights. It is a paper that explains the list of rights for humans, and a bunch of different freedoms. The rights are concentrated on men, and the freedom they now have. This was a declaration by the people of France. Most of the rights written in the declaration are enforceable rights, meaning they are rights that the government must enforce. Article 1 states "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights", and in Article 4, it is mentioned that "Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else" (N. 1789). This is important to the …show more content…
The reason it is important to working-class history is that prior to the charter being written, men did not have any rights to vote. According to, The Peoples Charter article, the charter proposed that "any men over the age of 21, apart from the felons and the declared insane, were allowed to vote" (The Peoples Charter). Furthermore, for the working-class, this opened opportunities for the men to vote, and to reform the people's rights. Prior to the People's charter, many people were unemployed. It was significantly important that the People's Charter passes its bill for the working-class because it opened opportunities for the poor, lower-class, and/or other Men who were left without any jobs, due to their rights. In Journal article published by the Cambridge University Press, about 'The Working-Class and the Chartists', Women have been ignored, and the reason for it is because of historians. "Chartist women have been ignored in part because historians, intent upon stressing the seriousness of the movement, have played down the sorts of informal activities in which women were most prominent" (Epstein, J. A). This is also important to the working-class, because, Women were never seen as important enough to work. It was always focused on Men, including the other readings. It's significance to the working-class is that Women can equally do the amount of work that men can, however, decades ago,