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Fully 30% of Jefferson's Original Declaration was truncated. It explicitly denounced slavery and blamed it on Britain. That caused him great trouble. Till his
by jivatmanx 13y ago
Fully 30% of Jefferson's Original Declaration was truncated. It explicitly denounced slavery and blamed it on Britain.
That caused him great trouble. Till his death, he insisted that be the version preserved for posterity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence#Slavery_and_the_Declaration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_In...