Rebecca Nagel
speaker
237 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Rebecca Nagel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We're there.
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were one of the most important lines in the document.
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But somehow, no one knows about it.
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A couple of summers ago, on a hot July day, this man in a large coat and a feathered hat walked up a small set of stairs.
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Surrounded by Revolutionary War reenactors, bayonets, and the twin speakers of the Park Service's PA system, he began reading the Declaration of Independence.
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At the time of the document's creation, a lot of people were illiterate, and printing stuff was slow and expensive.
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So word spread through public readings like this one.
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Our founders are breaking up with George III, King of England.
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And the Declaration is that part of every breakup, or at least every bad breakup, where you tell the other person everything they did wrong.
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If Thomas Jefferson and King George were having it out on the front lawn, Jefferson would have his finger in George's face yelling, and another thing.
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And so the Declaration is basically this long list of complaints.
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A lot of historians say that List has an order.
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Ravaged our coast.
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It starts with smaller grievances.
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Burnt our towns.
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And ends with the biggest ones.
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We've been told the American Revolution was fought over taxes and representation.
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But the last complaint, the thing our founders were most angry about, goes like this.
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There's a racial slur in the Declaration of Independence.
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Native people are called savages.
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