

Historian Woody Holton explains at The Conversation:
- Ordinary Americans played a big role.
- American independence is due in part to African Americans.
- The complaints weren’t actually about the King.
- The Declaration of Independence does not actually denounce monarch.
- The Declaration of Independence fell short of its most pressing purpose.
- 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.