Recognizing the courageous actions of Reverend Nat Turner in his fight to abolish slavery and make the majestic words of the Jeffersonian Declaration of Independence, "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 life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", apply to the enslaved, and for other purposes.

IV

119TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION

H. RES. 632

Recognizing the courageous actions of Reverend Nat Turner in his fight

to abolish slavery and make the majestic words of the Jeffersonian

Declaration of Independence, ‘‘We hold these truths to be self-evident,

that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator