{"id":166,"date":"2016-06-20T13:59:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2016-06-20T13:59:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:59:54","slug":"did-the-july-18-1776-readers-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/did-the-july-18-1776-readers-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the July 18, 1776, readers believe ???????"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We hold these truths to be <em>self-evident:<\/em> <strong>all<\/strong> people are created equal, endowed with <strong>unalienable<\/strong> Rights to <strong>Life,<\/strong> <strong>Liberty,<\/strong> the Pursuit of <strong>Happiness<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A portrait of the first public reading of these words in \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/July-18-1776.jpg\" alt=\"July 18, 1776\" width=\"298\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/July-18-1776.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/July-18-1776-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Massachusetts, July 18, 1776<\/p>\n<p>The founders generally did \u00a0not believe them &#8212; <strong>SLAVERY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most founders believed the words were about <em>MEN<\/em> &#8212; did not include\u00a0<strong>&#8220;WOMEN&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The groups to whom these rights were <strong>unalienable<\/strong> were to be decided in &#8220;political&#8221; debates for centuries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THOSE WORDS ARE AND ALWAYS WILL DEFINE THE \u00a0GREATNESS OF OUR NATION &#8212; J<em>ustice Cardozo said those words \u00a0&#8220;will extend themselves to the limits of their logic.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We hold these truths to be self-evident: all people are created equal, endowed with unalienable Rights to Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness&#8221; A portrait of the first public reading of these words in \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Massachusetts, July 18, 1776 The founders generally did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/did-the-july-18-1776-readers-believe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Did the July 18, 1776, readers believe ???????<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}