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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

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“For these rich men, freedom was not the power to make choices; freedom was the power to create choices. England created the choices, the policies American elites had to abide by, just as planters created choices and policies that laborers had to follow. Only power gave Jefferson and other wealthy White colonists freedom from England. For Jefferson, power came from freedom. Indeed, power creates freedom, not the other way around - as the powerless are taught.”

What do you make of this idea while considering the promise of the Declaration that "all men are created equal" and guarantees protections of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"?

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