I am named Isabel, and I am a slave who is humbly petitioning to you, the illustrious leaders of the United States, to receive my freedom. Throughout my life in New York and Rhode Island ,I have been promised freedom several times, however, this has never taken place in spite of the promise. Based on numerous Patriotic ideals, I should be freed from bondage. The Declaration of Independence contains some revolutionary ideas that should be applied to enslaved people as well as to others. If the Declaration of Independence contains ideas that are applicable to nations, they are also applicable to the individual citizens of these nations. According to The Declaration of Independence that you wrote, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are …show more content…
Many important patriots also agree with me and their messages should be applied to slaves as well as to whites. According to Thomas Paine, the writer of Common Sense, “But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, … the distinction of men into KINGS and SUBJECTS.” Likewise, there is no real reason why people are divided into slaves and masters. Nothing makes this right, and it is unreasonable for this reason. As Phillis Wheatly says in her poem “To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth”, “No longer shalt thou dread the iron chain” You, the most prominent leaders of our nation, know that our nation should never need to dread the tyranny of Great Britain. Slaves should never need to fear the tyranny of their masters either. Slaves should not be dreading and enduring the horrors of slavery. Being a slave, neither should I. Many strong Patriots agree with me that slavery is an unfair system, and slaves should not have to endure tyranny like