Documents Of Disaster And Conferences Of Calamity
250 years ago, a collection of disgruntled white men - many of them wealthy landowners, slaveholders, and white supremacists - declared their independence from a king and what they believed to be an iniquitous tyranny that exercised interdiction from the pursuit of “life, liberty, and happiness.” This so-called Declaration of Independence (DOI) may very well be the most hypocritical, contradictory, and incomplete document and proclamation in the HIStory of the world. According to the historical society, American Battlefield Trust, 41 of the 56 DOI signers were slaveholders, with Thomas Jefferson, the lead author of the document, himself owning over 600.