Six things you may not know about the Declaration of Independence

Historian Woody Holton explains at The Conversation:

1. Ordinary Americans played a big role.
2. American independence is due in part to African Americans.
3. The complaints weren’t actually about the King.
4. The Declaration of Independence does not actually denounce monarch.
5. The Declaration of Independence fell short of its most pressing purpose.
6. Abolitionists and feminists shifted the Declaration of Independence’s focus to human rights.

See how Holton unpacks these here.

I would add one more: The Declaration of Independence is not a Christian document.

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