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”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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