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Jefferson’s World “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” This was the start to Lincoln’s famed Gettysburg address. The reference that the United States was created under the ideals of all men being created equal was in reference to The Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be self-evident …

…of Georgia On Servants, Headless: We have spoken of that sanguinary year, 1793. In those troubled times it was that French domestics set an example of the greatest devotion. There were many even who, rather than betray their masters, allowed themselves to be guillotined in their lace, and who, when happier days returned, silently and respectfully went back to their work. -Figary, Paris, February 1890; from an essay on home life during the French Revolution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**