DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS AND RESOULTIONS (12-6) Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (DSR) in 1848 for the firsts women's rights convention at Seneca Falls in New York. Stanton used one of the most popular documents in American history, the Declaration of Independence as the model for this controversial (at the time) document that called for women's equal rights. ... For instance the ideology of the Declaration of Independence (DOI) was geared towards rejecting the power of King George III over the colonies and it's citizens. ... At ...

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Our "Declaration of Independence- states that "All men are created equal."" ... "Compare your own language , extracted from your Declaration of Independence, with your cruelties and murders inflicted by your cruel and unmerciful fathers and yourselves on our fathers and on us--men who have never given your fathers or you the least provocation!!!!!!... This point is illustrated in Douglass rhetorical question, "Now, Americans! ... For the first time in the history of the United States , more than a handful of people started to see them as humans who ought to have the same inalienable rights...

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John Calhoun demanded that the United States "cease the agitation of the slave question" (Douglas 13). ... Like all the abolitionists, Stowe was aware of the painful discrepancies between America's Declaration of Independence and its legislation of slavery (Douglas 20). She claims that she longed "to do something, I knew not what: to fight for my country, or to make some declaration on my account. Uncle Tom's Cabin was that declaration" (Douglas 21). ...

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After the Civil War Frederick Douglas said, "the Declaration of Independence is no longer a lie." ... The author had a wonderful documentary except that once he had the audience's attention, he should have went into the minor details that would have left the audience's questions at ease. ...

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