It wasn't, but people have been mis-taught the actual history on the matter. Thomas Jefferson, by including those lines in a document asserting a right to *INDEPENDENCE*, probably did more to advance the cause of abolition than anyone else in history.
The problem is, those words are irrelevant to the purpose for which the document was written. The sole purpose of the document was to justify the American colonies obtaining *INDEPENDENCE* from Britain.
And the fact that they all still had slavery after the Declaration was written and signed by all the state's representatives, shows that the "all men are created equal" was not meant to include slaves, and was in fact a flowery line, the removal of which would not have altered the purpose of the document at all.
We were founded on a right to govern our selves. To obtain independence from a government we no longer saw as serving our interests. We were *NOT* founded on a concept of equality that no one at the time respected. That is a later day invention of the intent of the Declaration.
That war was so horrible, I devoutly hope nothing like it is ever repeated. But almost every day, someone - even here - seems to be calling for it to solve today’s problems.
A modern civil war would look nothing like the 1861 civil war.
Modern liberals live in big cities which are death traps. Modern cities are indefensible against the cut off of water, electricity, gas, and supplies.
It will never get to a point of war. A week of disruption of water, electricity, and food, the liberals will be screaming for mercy.
They are not a hardy bunch.
So all the stuff about inalienable rights was just flowery stuff, too? Those are pretty clear statements, but you think they wrote things they didn’t believe, or only believed were true for Whites?
I don’t buy that. I take them at their words. I’ve always understood that many of the Founders despised slavery and hoped the people would eventually abolish it peacefully.