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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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?... "The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me....This Fourth of July is yours not mine.... He then went on to reveal the irony of the Declaration of Independence, a doctrine that granted liberty and freedom to every man. ... Prior to giving this speech Douglass spent two years studying the Constit...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... The conflicts that arose between p...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The life of Abraham Lincoln can be linked with the development of the question on whether the institution of slavery could grow with the nation or not. ... These contradictions would be involved in Lincoln's evolving thoughts on how to come about stopping the expansion of the slavery in America as he thought them to be created equal, citing the Declaration of Independence, but thought it unrealistic as even opponents of slavery in the North were absolutely opposed to a full integration of freed slaves, or viewed integration, at least, quite skeptically. ... I hate it because it deprives o...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

But the question is if slavery really ended when the war ended? ... African Americans, I believe, had a huge role in achieving their own independence during the war, and after. ... Congress and the government gave exceptional benefits towards the outcome of black people striving for independence. ... With the declaration of the Emancipation, former slaves were rejoined with past families. ...

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Years before they touched the place now known as Mount Rushmore there were many questions that needed to be answered. ... Borglum chose the first president, George Washington, to be on the mountain because he fought for our independence from England. Thomas Jefferson was chosen after him because he wrote the Declaration of Independence and he was also president during the Louisiana Purchase, which expanded the nation greatly. ... He helped win independence from Great Britain. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The language of the Declaration of Independence, and the great talks of equality, also helped place slavery in an ethically precarious position in the minds of many. ... In 1820, politicians debated the question of whether slavery would be legal in the western territories. ...

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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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• Grade Level: High School

Nature is a useful lens to use that leads to such questions such as whether slavery was justified or not, because of the culture it has created and developed into contemporary African American culture and its people and descendants. ... This part of the Declaration of Independence became part of Lincoln's human nature and propelled his thoughts and ideas against slavery and the Confederacy. ...

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A struggle for the right of self-government ensued, which resulted, on the fourth of July, 1776, in a Declaration, by the Colonies, "that they are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; . . ."" ... Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens explained following the war that "the conflict, on this question of slavery, in the Federal Councils, from the beginning, was not a contest between the advocates or opponents of that peculiar institution, but a contest . . . between the supporters of a strictly Federative Government, on the one side, and a thorough...

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• Grade Level: High School

My question that I set out to answer was to see if the Proclamation was motivated my military necessity or somewhat of a moral wrong that needed to be made right. ... "This declared indifference, but as I must think, covert zeal for the spread of slavery I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence criticizing the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest." ... Thus Lincoln was required to be very careful about how he managed the question of emancipation. ...

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The painful declarations of ignorance of his birth date, and even the identity of his father was a struggle. ... The trajectory toward independence continued through his career as an abolitionist. ... If a gentleman shall say the rich man has property and the poor man has not then the question is only changed for another what is his right to property." ...

• Word Count: 1886
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• Grade Level: High School