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Best of: An inspiring conversation about democracy with Danielle Allen

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Story of the Declaration of Independence Is a Story of Hypocrisy

There was already conscious abolitionists intention. By the 17 seventies, James otis had also written a powerful pamphlet against enslavement. So that's not to say that they were fullly egaltarians. And john adams was also explicit that while he thought that the sort of universal rights of the declaration applied to everybody, men, women,. poor people, ad people of color, he also, at the same time, was convinced that none the less power should be left in the hands off white men with property.

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