Living the Declaration

How have Americans intepreted the Declaration thoughout our history, and how do we engage with it today?

Here are some examples:

• Lemuel Haynes' Sermon Condemning Slavery (1776)

• John C. Calhoun on the Declaration's "Created Equal" (1848)

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments (1848)

• Abraham Lincoln's "Electric Cord" Speech (1858)

• Lincoln–Douglas Ottawa Debte (1858)

• The Gettysburg Address (1863)

• Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail