They held that the Negro was an inferior being and should be kept in slavery.
So, the real persons who had a right to revolt were the slaves, not the slave owners.
The Pot should not call the Kettle "Black." The view that the Declaration applied to slaves was REJECTED BY EVERYONE in 1776.
Once again, every single state which signed that document was a slave owning state. Many of the very men that signed it were slave owners.
This notion that the words of the Declaration ought to apply to slaves was something that came along later, though I think it was Jefferson's intention to trigger this line of thought when he put those words in there.
They held that the Negro was an inferior being and should be kept in slavery.
You should see what Abraham Lincoln had to say about the subject. I think it would make you blush. Yes he wanted them free, but he then wanted them expelled from the country.
So, the real persons who had a right to revolt were the slaves, not the slave owners.
So in 1776, it is the slaves who should have won their independence, and not the colonies? Well, the British did offer freedom to any slave that would join the fight against the Americans.
So you are taking the British side in this? Cause I want you to be consistent. The Slaves had just as much a right to revolt in 1776 as they did four score and seven years later.
So in other words, you are against the creation of the USA because the slaves freedom should have come first? Does that just about sum it up?