Column: What to Know About Four South Carolinians Who Pledged ‘Sacred Honor’

The Declaration of Independence: And a little bit about the North Carolina signers - Davie County Enterprise Record

The unanimous Declaration of the 13 united States of America: When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them…

Column: What to know about four South Carolinians who pledged ‘sacred honor’

The four South Carolina men who signed the Declaration of Independence fit the profile of their co-signers: wealthy, white men in their 30s and 40s.

A Declaration of Possibility

In 1776, a small group of men initiated the possibility of a new nation and future for a group of 13 divided colonies with a Declaration of Independence.