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The growing openness to members of all the world's races was always possible under the terms of the Declaration of Independence, which, as Lincoln no… - Thomas G. West
" "The growing openness to members of all the world's races was always possible under the terms of the Declaration of Independence, which, as Lincoln noted, made a transracial principle, the equal natural rights of all men, the basis of citizenship. For that reason, America from the beginning was always a multinational and multiracial society. As early as 1776, as we saw in the first chapter, some blacks were citizens, as were many non-British Europeans.
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About Thomas G. West
Thomas G. West (born 1945) is an American historian. He is a professor of Politics at Hillsdale College, and the author of three books.
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