How did abolitionists and women’s rights activists use the rhetoric of the country’s founding documents in their fight for equality?

The Declaration of Independence promised “Freedom and Equality for All,” but in reality not all people in the United States received freedom and equality. How did abolitionists and women’s rights activists use the rhetoric of the country’s founding documents in their fight for equality?
Make sure to read and discuss in your answer “The Declaration of Sentiments,” a document produced by the women at the Seneca Falls Convention (1848), Abigail Adams’s letters to her
husband (week 6), and “What to a Slave is the 4th of July?,” a speech by Frederick Douglass.

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