Why Thomas Jefferson’s Anti-Slavery Passage Was Removed from the Declaration of Independence
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Describes an early draft of the Declaration of Independence in which author Thomas Jefferson condemned slavery as one of the many evils foisted upon the colonies by the British crown and how and why the passage was stricken from the final draft.
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