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Meanwhile, back in Congress, Thomas Jefferson had produced his draft declaration, which had been reviewed and revised. On June 28 it was read and debated in Congress as a whole. More revisions were demanded and made, including the crucial decision to omit Jefferson’s attack on King George for enforcing slavery on the Colonies.

And the committee stripped out the anti-slavery provisions that Thomas Jefferson put in there, because their intent was to articulate a right to independence, not to make a commentary on the issue of slavery.

They did leave in his "all men are created equal", but they did not regard it as applying to slaves, as all 13 states were at that time slave states.

The idea of applying this verbiage to slaves, was a later year reading into the document of intentions that were not present at the time it was written and signed, and interpreting the document in this way is dishonest or ignorant.