The Declaration was not written to include the groups you mention but it embraces them none the less.
“...but it embraces them none the less...”
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Really?
How so?
As I understand history, negro slavery was controversial, and remained so until the Civil War and later. It was NOT the subject of the DoI.
The DoI was about freedom from a “divine” King of Great Britain and Ireland, who taxed colonists against their consent.
“All men” meant citizen and King alike, it meant native Englishman and colonist abroad alike. It meant those of high class and of low class alike.
Consistent with our DoI, we did not wind up with our own King after the revolution. And we didn't wind up with a class structure of titled noblemen.
Britain outlawed slaver in 1807 and we did somewhere in the 1860s, depending on your reading of history.
Huck is correct to a point; if the rights were “self-evident” we sure shed a lot of unnecessary blood in our Civil War to finalize those “self-evident” rights.