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Colin Powell on the Declaration of Independence and how it applied to black people
A: The Declaration of Independence is one of the most remarkable ... It didn't apply to black folks.
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The Declaration of Independence and Slavery
The Declaration of Independence, along with the preamble ... writers of the Declaration did not mean all mankind, but only white people. They were wrong, as John Hale and Abraham Lincoln explained.
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The Declaration of Independence wasn’t really complaining about King George, and 5 other surprising facts for July Fourth
The Declaration of Independence was written by wealthy white men, but the impetus for independence came from ordinary Americans. Historian Pauline Maier discovered that by July 2, 1776 ...
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Dred Scott case: the Supreme Court decision
The framers of the Constitution, he wrote, believed that blacks "had no rights which the white man was bound ... Referring to the language in the Declaration of Independence that includes the ...
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A Declaration of Economic Independence
DEI for Black Americans in the second age of Trump has a new meaning called the Declaration of Economic Independence.
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Birmingham jail bench where MLK wrote famous letter to be displayed in Philly
The metal seat from which the civil rights leader wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" will be included in the museum's upcoming exhibit on the Declaration of Independence, the museum said Monday.