”And on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence… For all the fact that the congressmen got around the sticky little problem of Black and Indigenous enslavement by defining “men” as “white men,” and for all that it never crossed their minds that women might also have rights, the Declaration of Independence was an astonishingly radical document.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, July 3, 2026
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-3-2026
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.comJuly 3, 2026And on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring: “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.”