“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
(a) free blacks
(b) enslaved blacks
(c) women
(d) native americans
(e) mexicans in the southwest