“We hold these truths to be self-evident; that

all men and women are created equal. . . .

Now, in view of this entire disfranchisement

of one half of the people of this country,

their social and religious degradation . . . and

most fraudulently deprived of their most

sacred rights, we insist that they have

immediate admission to all the rights and

privileges which belong to them as citizens

of the United States.”

This was most probably written in behalf of

Afree blacks

Benslaved blacks

Cwomen

DNative Americans

EMexicans in the Southwest