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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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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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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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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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." ...

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