Finally, Frederick Douglass, one of the most famous black abolitionists and well-known as an eloquent public speaker, made a speech on Independence Day 1952 entitled "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" In this speech Douglass addressed a predominately white audience about how on the day celebrating American independence, political freedom, and natural justice, he as a black man could not celebrate while his people were still enslaved. "The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me....This Four...

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The thesis statement is that Lincoln sought to preserve the American union and its system of self-government by reclaiming the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and to recover the Spirit of '76 to the American mind which states that "all men are created equal". ... He focused on the need to return to the foundations of the Declaration of Independence and the ideas that shaped the creation of America in order to hold the Union together. ... Therefore, slavery threatened the Union and the principles of the Declaration of Independence. ... Therefore, they sought to secure t...

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One could find many disappointed slaves following their Declaration of Independence from Britain forming the United States of America. ... America was a premature country formed by revolutionaries who adamantly demanded their independence from other countries, and at the same time used those experiences as a guideline. ... There has been a political declaration of freedom with no solid plan to abate the problems it caused. ...

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The Declaration of Independence defined the promise of America - freedom and equality for all Americans. ... Without the audacious and unyielding efforts made by activists for African American civil rights, the pledge that the Declaration of Independence makes, " all men are created equal with certain unalienable rights life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", might still be blatantly denied to people of color today. ...

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During a time of revolution and independence, the leading men, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, and James Madison, all helped to influence a young country which stressed freedom and liberty for all. ... The opposite of that culture is individualism which supports self-expression and independence (Arnett 102). ... Documents like The Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776 were some of the first example of the desire for self-expression and independence. ...

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In response to the South, the North argued that "Slavery itself was a moral and political evil that was contrary to the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, and that it had been tolerated in the constitution only by necessity and ought to be restricted" This everlasting debate lasted until the next year when the Missouri Compromise was introduced. ...

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There they created "the Declaration of Sentiments", paraphrasing the Declaration of independents and favoring of Women's Rights. With the convincing of Fredrick Douglas, 100 delegates including himself, signed the Declaration marking the onset of the Women's Movement. With the Declaration of Sentiments bringing the issue of women voting to the national level, these delegates at the convention, now called suffragists, were focused on securing political equality for women. ...

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There they created "the Declaration of Sentiments", paraphrasing the Declaration of independents and favoring of Women's Rights. With the convincing of Fredrick Douglas, 100 delegates including himself, signed the Declaration marking the onset of the Women's Movement. With the Declaration of Sentiments bringing the issue of women voting to the national level, these delegates at the convention, now called suffragists, were focused on securing political equality for women. ...

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The secession commissioners repeated the same message throughout any argument: Lincoln and the Republicans were abolitionists that determined to establish racial equality; secession and independence offered white men the only alternative to degradation and cultural destruction. ... The authors of Mississippi's "Declaration of Immediate Causes," for instance, claimed that the North "advocates Negro equality, socially and politically, and promotes insurrection and incendiarism in our midst" (Dew 13). ...

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Picture yourself, sitting in the spine-chilling examination chair at the eye doctor, with the intent to receive eyeglasses or contact lenses. The doctor's purpose is to know which pair of lens is best tailored to your vision. And so, the eye doctor brings down the phoropter and shows you different s...

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In The Liberator he proposes; that the self evident truth in the American Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights - among which are life liberty, and pursuit of happiness. ...

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Losing the fight to limit slavery in Missouri, and Southerners' aggressive declarations during the discussions, led many Northerners to promise opposition to any new slave state or territory. ... " King later renounced some of the radical suggestions of this declaration for slavery beyond Missouri, but it was a sign of how far the debates had pressed some Northerners. ... It convinced many Southerners to highlight the Constitution, narrowly interpreted, at the expense of the "Declaration of Independence" and the principles it protected. ...

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(Akers 26) Thus, she was disappointed to see that the Declaration of Independence omitted a clear statement against slavery or status of women, and thus revealed to Abigail Adams that she was still living very much in the world where only all men-all white men, were equal. ...

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Anti-expansionists tended to emphasize the moral turpitude of colonization, and the hypocrisy attendant to holding others subjects as we held ourselves to the standards of the "Declaration of Independence" and the "Bill of Rights." ...

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