Commentary: My personal Declaration of Independence

From: Daily Record and the Kansas City Daily News-Press | Date: July 6, 2005| Author: Christine Ann Hughes | Copyright information

More than 20 million persons were taken from Africa between 1500 and 1800 and brought to America to be slaves. When the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, it did not give freedom to these slaves. Neither did the signing of the Declaration of Independence give immediate freedom from English lordship, or equality for women in our country. Americans had to fight for their freedom then and are still fighting for our freedom today.

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