Question

What the Declaration of Independence says about equality and liberty, how that language might have sounded to enslaved people in 1776, and

then in 1852.

Answer 1

the declaration of independence has enlightenment ideas/liberal ideas that all men are created equal and that all men have the natural right to liberty. slaves would consider this to be hypocritical because their humanity was essentially denied because they were treated as property even though the founding document of america states that all men are created equal etc.