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6 surprising facts about the Declaration of Independence

The nation’s founding document failed to achieve its most immediate goal, but in time abolitionists and feminists shifted its focus to human rights, transforming it into arguably the most consequential freedom document ever composed. Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody Holton explains.

 

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