![]() ![]() ![]() "And especially when we think about what's going on today, and how we use words and language and how it's understood - and what an important document this was at that tumultuous time."ĭenise Van Buren, president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, said she thought more women should take inspiration from Goddard to "raise voices" and "to help chart the course for our nation. "I wondered about that quite a bit… and how it was understood, when the enslaved and women at that time wanted a voice in this new republic," Belloff said. The artist said she often wondered what it was like for a woman to be printing those words at the time. However, did you know that, like most people who write something. While the Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia, Washington and his forces were in. Almost everyone knows that Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. She recreated Goddard's printing of the document, with historically accurate typeface and paper, but changed the word "men" in two places to "people." Her printings sit in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress. The first official issue of the Declaration of Independence of the United States with the names of the signers was printed for Congress, then meeting in. George Washington did not sign the Declaration of Independence. ![]() What happened to the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence Five of the 56 Declaration signers were captured by the British and tortured as traitors. She said one British historian felt that it was understood to be all mankind, and she herself felt it was "time to set the record straight." Roger Sherman, George Clymer, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, James Wilson, and George Read signed both the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Constitution in 1787. Two prominent delegates passed up the chance to sign: John Dickinson of Pennsylvania and Robert R. "As a feminist artist, I felt that, we're still sort of grappling with this language today," she said.īelloff spoke with several historians about what "all men" meant at the time. Belloff had long grappled with the Declaration of Independence's language, including the phrase, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." ![]()
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