Counterpoint: July 4, 1776, was "the greatest single day for human liberty in the history of the world." https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/a-day-to-celebrate-the-american-promise/ …https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1411702308711325700 …
At the time of the Founding, slavery existed basically everywhere in the Western Hemisphere, Africa, the Islamic world, & Korea. Serfs were the vast majority of Russia & much of Eastern & Central Europe.
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Precisely. And there were those in the Continental Congress who advocated abolition, even then. But they could not obtain the necessary consensus, without which there would have been no Declaration. Again, they were stuck in their era. As are we.
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So what? Does that mean it was right? Or that you can't acknowledge the hypocrisy of writing 'all men are created equal' when some men were treated as property and beasts of burden?
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245 years ago today, leaders representing 13 British colonies signed a document to declare independence.
It says "that all men are created equal" — but women, enslaved people, Indigenous people and many others were not held as equal at the time.
