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Once incorporated into a political order where Africans didn't have some critical rights that other people took for granted through natural law and claimed as a matter of 'natural law' did the possibility of inferior nature become a question for debate. The 1776 Declaration of Independence solidified this. If it is self-evident that God made people equal, and Africans are not equal, then there is the idea that something is naturally 'wrong' with Africans --> only in equal society could race become a thing. This (race) supplied the means of explaining and justifying slavery in a republic founded on doctrines of liberty and natural rights. When self-evident laws of nature guarantee freedom, only equally self-evident laws of nature can account for why some men are denied freedoms that other men have been granted by God (i.e. nature).

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