Who wrote the declaration of independence free#
We might have been a free & a great people together but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished dye, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.Īlso omitted was this rallying cry (again, emphasis Jefferson’s): this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. He 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. Of the King, Jefferson wrote (bold indicates an underlined portion): Most of the changes were made to the last half of the document notably, the following passage, which referred to slavery, was omitted to appease delegates from Georgia and South Carolina. In the days after the document was ratified, the founding father handwrote several copies of his original version, underlining what had been changed, and sent them off to several friends. Delegates argued the details of the document for two days before making a number of changes to it-and Jefferson was not pleased.
Jefferson submitted the “rough draught” of the Declaration of Independence to the Second Continental Congress on June 28, 1776. But the document you know and can probably recite from memory (at least partially) is much different from what Thomas Jefferson-the primary author in a committee of five men commissioned to draft the document-originally wrote. In 1776, the Continental Congress ratified the Declaration of Independence.
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