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This view is what enabled slave holder and slave breeder Thomas Jefferson to write, 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. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…. In Jefferson's day in the US, many assumed (believed) that only white men were fully human, so there was no contradiction between the belief that all men are created equal and slavery. The rest were accordingly not enfranchised in the US Constitution. Non-white males were franchised subsequent to the Civil War, but women did not get the vote until the
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This view is what enabled slave holder and slave breeder Thomas Jefferson to write, 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. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…. In Jefferson's day in the US, many assumed (believed) that only white men were fully human, so there was no contradiction between the belief that all men are created equal and slavery. The rest were accordingly not enfranchised in the US Constitution. Non-white males were franchised subsequent to the Civil War, but women did not get the vote until the
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: US racism
This could be interesting, too:
This view is what enabled slave holder and slave breeder Thomas Jefferson to write,
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. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed….
In Jefferson's day in the US, many assumed (believed) that only white men were fully human, so there was no contradiction between the belief that all men are created equal and slavery.
The rest were accordingly not enfranchised in the US Constitution.
Non-white males were franchised subsequent to the Civil War, but women did not get the vote until the Constitution was amended in 1920, and this came only after a long fight by the women suffrage movement.
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