A Womanist Reading of Hebrew Bible Narratives as the Politics of Belonging from an Outsider Within - Hardcoverby Vanessa Lovelace (Author) The U. S. Declaration of Independence of 1776 decreed that all men were created equal and were endowed by their Creator with "certain unalienable Rights." Yet, U. S. born free and enslaved Black people were not recognized as citizens with "equal protections under the law" until the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment. Even then, White supremacists impeded the equal rights of Black people as citizens due to their beliefs in