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6 surprising facts about the Declaration of Independence
Fast CompanyEditor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody Holton explains.
His 2021 book Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revoluti…