Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Thomas Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence contained a passage denouncing the slave trade.

First Draft, Best Draft

by Greg Ross

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Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence contained a passage denouncing the slave trade:
He [George III] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Congress removed it.



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