However, the colonists were declared their independence from the British Rule. ... The Declaration of Independence states, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. However, that isn't the case when the Declaration of Independence was written. ... The individuals who signed the Declaration of Independence were not only white but they were also slave owners. ... As Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence which t...

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The southern states, in general, were against independence. ... Thomas Jefferson composed the Declaration of Independence and it was signed by every single delegate. ... Many issues came up when debating the Declaration. ... Jefferson finally gave in and the slavery clause was stricken from the Declaration of Independence. ... The Declaration of Independence was written as a sort of memorandum to the world stating that the colonies of Britain were now an independent nation of their own. ...

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Because of the revolution we have the Declaration of Independence, which states that all men are created equal. ... The Declaration of Independence stirred people up because how the government acted and what they said did not go together. Document A shows the divided opinions on slavery after the Declaration of Independence. ... During 1776-1852 there was growing opposition to slavery through the writing of the Declaration of Independence, growing knowledge of slavery, the Second Great Awakening, and the idea of Manifest Destiny....

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He contributed many benefits to our country such as the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, sent Louis and Clark on an expedition to find the Pacific Ocean in 1804, and of course his most famous contribution: drafting the Declaration of Independence. ... " Benjamin Banneker, son of former slaves, realized the irony and hypocrisy in this part of the Declaration of Independence. ... Banneker uses pathos to remind Jefferson of how he was inspired to incorporate the statement about equality into the Declaration. ... He wants Jefferson to realize the African American slaves are what America was befor...

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Both the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence addressed the topic of slavery. ... On the contrary, the Declaration of Independence implied the minimization of slavery. ... The Declaration of Independence and the US constitution further impacted the debate over slavery. ... Even the Declaration of Independence addresses slavery. ... Evidence of both sides can be found in Satanstoe, New York, the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. ...

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Religious fanatics and humanists began to take the issue to the political stage, alluding to the declaration of independence as support for their cause. ... Quoted from the Declaration of Independence of which the United States was founded upon, it was hardly a deniable argument. ...

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In April 1775 blacks had fought for the Continental Army; three months later, however, Washington had banned blacks from the patriot army; in November Lord Dunmore made his proclamation; and by July 4th, 1776, the passage on slavery had finally been deleted from the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration fought for the freedom of the white American; the rights of the black man were not included in this new revolutionary legislation. ... For the black bondsman in 1776 the contradictory language of the revolution, epitomized by the Declaration of Independence, made Dunmore's promise ...

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By drafting the Declaration of Independence, he contributed to the structure and foundation of the great nation that is America today. ... In the declaration one can find deliberate loop-holes to allow for the continuation of slavery. ... In the declaration it says that if any form of government becomes destructive, the people hold the right to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government. ... The declaration is saying that, if African Americans had a serious grudge against slavery, they would publicly voice their opinions in mass. ... Jefferson would have been a true hero if he h...

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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!!!!!!... 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 that the Declaration of Independence spoke of nearly seventy-five years earlier...

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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?" 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 declaration of independence. I believe that he was saying this phrase in a sarcastic way because he feels with the current injustices towards slavery practices it contradicts these traditions that are passed in the declaration of independence....

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With Haiti, this was especially unique due to the fact that the revolution resulted from a slave population overthrowing their oppressors and winning their freedom in addition to their political independence. ... This group of whites was mainly interested in the profits that were generated by free trade and desired independence from France in order to pursue those goals (Corbett). ... They typically had to compete with free blacks for work, were more loyal to France and less inclined to promote independence (Corbett). ... The petits blancs viewed the declaration in a similar manner and joi...

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In Thomas Jefferson's "The Declaration of Independence", he begins the second paragraph with " that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." ...

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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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Even though majority of people thought slavery was acceptable, some felt that slavery was a violation of Declaration of Independence, and others believed slavery was a sin that had to be corrected right away. ... It was a long hard battle for equality among the individuals and society that took many years and a war to make southerners finally acknowledge that slavery was not only inhumane and immoral, but it went against the Declaration of Independence. ...

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" --Declaration of Independence Slavery is a societal institution based on ownership, dominance, and exploitation of one human being by another and reciprocal submission on the part of the person owned. ... In reference to the quote from The Declaration of Independence at the beginning of the paper, where it says that "We hold these truths to be self-evident-, "all men are created eq...

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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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Thomas Jefferson shows his most Important achievement, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, where Jefferson writes "We hold these truths to be self evidence: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" ( The Norton Anthology American Literature 715). In my opinion the merely problem with this passage from the Declaration of Independence is that is does not say, "We hold these truths to be self-evidence, that all men including their race, creed, religion or c...

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The Ideas of Slavery The well-known civil rights leader Frederick Douglass writes his narrative about personal experiences with slavery, as well as, his efforts towards becoming a free man. Hidden within his narrative, he reveals his thoughts and ideas as regards the institution of slavery and...

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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 our republican example of its just influence in the world – enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites &nda...

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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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During the 19th century, the main topic of conflict was slavery. Slavery was outlawed in the North and an institution in the South. Eventually this conflict escalated to much more than just an argument but to a war, The Civil War. Although Northerner's attitude towards slavery was valid and eventual...

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He is also a great roll model, because he went from a ruff, fatherless childhood to becoming a young scholar and later the third president of this country as well as writer of the Declaration of Independence where the birth to freedom, liberty, and pride started. ...

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Society can be viewed from many different perspectives. During the 1800's, two people could live under the very same constitution but have completely different outlooks on how effectively the government worked. In "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass", this former slave describes his exper...

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During the 1760's and 1770's, the British undermined the success of American colonists with high taxation and a strong military presence. Economic growth was deterred and the majority of profits were used to fund Britain's wars with feuding European nations. The years following 1783, welcomed an Am...

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