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Woody Holton: The Declaration of Independence was written by wealthy white men, but impetus for independence came from ordinary Americans .
He says the final version of the Declaration never uses the word “slave” but African Americans loomed large in the first draft.
Holton says it failed to achieve its most immediate goal and that its meaning has changed from the founding to today .
Lemuel Haynes , a free African American soldier serving in the Continental Army , had drafted an essay called “ Liberty Further Extended” Haynes began the process of shifting the focus and meaning of the Declaration of Independence from Congress ’ ordinance of secession to a universal declaration of human rights.
That effort was later carried forward by other abolitionists, Black and white, by women’s rights activists and by other seekers of social justice, including Abraham Lincoln .
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