Question

See your Declaration Americans! ! ! Do you understand your own language? Hear your languages, proclaimed to the world, July 4th, 1776—"We hold these truths to be self evident—that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL! ! that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness! !" Compare your own language above, extracted from your Declaration of Independence, with your cruelties and murders inflicted by your cruel and unmerciful fathers and yourselves on our fathers and on us—men who have never given your fathers or you the least provocation! ! ! ! ! !—David Walker, Appeal, 1829 To what does David Walker appeal to support the abolition of slavery?
A) Citizens' sense of moral responsibility

B) Historical standards and traditions

C) The laws of other nations.

D) The nation’s founding principles.

Answer 1

I believe it’s D ! :)