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To: Lucas McCain
He knows much better than Thomas Jefferson!

Jefferson called out the evils of slavery perpetrated by the English King. Too bad for their posterity (us), that other delegates at the convention removed what he wrote in his submitted draft. [1][2]

[King George] waged cruel War against Nature itself, violating its most sacred Rights of Life and Liberty in the Persons of a distant People who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into Slavery in another Hemisphere, or to incur miserable Death, in their Transportation thither.
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16 posted on 06/16/2020 3:21:21 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: rxsid
But the other members of the committee wisely struck out all that language which wouldn't very well fly in 13 slave owning colonies.

The effort would have been over before it started had Jefferson's language remained in the document. It wouldn't have been unanimous, and likely not been issued at all.

49 posted on 06/16/2020 3:32:39 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: rxsid

Great Post!


155 posted on 06/16/2020 6:15:11 PM PDT by Pagey (Valerie Jarrett. She IS STILL in DC, Creating More Havoc for President Trump.)
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