The Ideas Of American Independence: The Declaration Of Independence

The Declaration of Independance. The American colonists face off with the British redcoats in the battle for freedom from the crown. This was the start of the Revolutionary War. By the time the war was in full swing the Continental Congress had decided to make a move away from Britain and declare their independence. The men who drafted such a paper was Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin. The document would soon become the Declaration of Independence which included such lines as “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.” This line among the most famous of the many that were included in this text. John Hancock was the first to sign the document in big bold letters so the King of Britain would be able …show more content…
The irony of the matter was that they say that all of us are equal, but they owned slaves and treated them like possessions which with they could get rid of at anytime. There wasn’t a few blacks they could tolerate it was all of them, there was no distinction between any of them. Even if a slave were to buy their freedom they would still be treated like a slave and have nothing. They were denied every single human right you could imagine. Some would say this was the bottom that America sank to. When you allow men to fight alongside each other and call themselves brother then turn your back to them, you are the evil, not them. That is the lowest a person can sink is to call someone family and then turn your back upon them. If Jefferson 's paragraph was included in the Declaration of Independence I believe there would be less hatred both then and now. The discrimination and prejudice would be over and finally we could live as equals in everyone 's eyes. Clearly, Jefferson’s paragraph would’ve helped to level the playing