Broadside · A 1776 town · 1776
Pass it on
The Declaration of Independence
93Living historically.
A people stating why they are leaving a king. The sheet was heard in a yard, not kept as a private letter.
The review
John Dunlap printed it overnight. Congress ordered the sheets sent to the assemblies and the army. John Nixon read it in the State House yard on July 8. The army heard it in New York on July 9. Few houses owned a copy. A town could hear it.
The score holds two things at once. The claim that rights are not a king's to give is the high part. The men who adopted it struck out a condemnation of the slave trade, and slavery continued. Do not quote the promise and skip the bill.
Journal
Keep The Declaration of Independence in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 93. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry is the thin one.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 9Industry
A committee did the labor, and the bill of grievances is specific work.
- 9Household
Posterity is named. It is not a story about one house.
- 9Piety
Nature's God and the Creator are in the sentence. A soul is allowed. A church is not established.
- 10Courage
To sign it, if they lost, was a hanging offense.
- 10Republic
The document is the republic question said in public.
- 9Temperance
The tone is an indictment, controlled. It does not gloat.
- 9Truth
The rights are stated plainly. Congress cut the passage on the slave trade, and the country went on holding people as property. That omission is part of the score.
- 9Stewardship
It was handed to a people, and it did not free the people already in chains. Later generations used the promise against that fact.
Where to watch
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Live Historic · The Declaration of Independence · 93IMDb
