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Title: Lost passages from the Declaration of Independence
Source: Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence
URL Source: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=4
Published: Jul 4, 2006
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Post Date: 2006-07-04 17:45:10 by bluegrass
Ping List: *New History*
Keywords: None
Views: 195
Comments: 5

Congress removed these parts. There's some other telling little changes at the link.


He has incited treasonable insurrections of our fellow-citizens, with the allurements of forfeiture & confiscation of our property.

He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and 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. This piratical warfare, the opprobium of INFIDEL Powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. 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 die, 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 on 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.

...Future ages will scarcely believe that the hardiness of one man adventured, within the short compass of twelve years only, to lay a foundation so broad & so undisguised for tyranny over a people fostered & fixed in principles of freedom.


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#1. To: bluegrass (#0)

What you mean is - that this was in a rough draft and not in the final product. because my memory of the history they used to teach in american schools is that right after July 4, 1776 they took hand-written copies of this Declaration, they transported them to many cities and villages and read them outloud to the people. Surely this passage must've been cut out before then.

Was Thomas Jefferson the prime author of the Declaration? I know he didn't do it by himself, there were multiple people inputting. there were many drafts.

I know in an early draft they said 'pursuit of property' and later changed it to 'pursuit of happiness'.

they probably wanted to avoid controversy over slavery in order to build political support for the revolution.

the anti-american types always loved to bash our country over every flaw. flaws such as slavery. we were given the slavery institution by england and the world of commerce. It was not our choice. there were always people inour country who knew that slavery was wrong. Washington freed his slaves, yet is bashed as a slave-owner. He inherited slaves and this is his crime. People say he should've freed them as soon as he had control over them. But that would've been cruel. It was illegal to be a free black person in Virginia. If he'd pushed them off of the land he'd have made them homelss in a hostile world. That he would not do. He kept his slaves in their homes and treated them decently. He had 2-3 times as many as he needed to work the land and he refused to sell or trade any of them unless they (the slave) agreed in writing to the deal. When he finally freed them he mandated that all of them get free education as much as they wanted and would only leave his property when they chose to do so. This is what Washington did, and yet he has been bashed as a slave-owner. So it is with our country too. our people conditioned to live with this anti-american impulse for so long when we were mis-understood. and then this evil comes onto our nation's leadership and so many are conditioned not to see it from the past criticisms of the anti-americans.

this document above proves there were many who had keen awareness that the slavery institution was wrong.

there were many slave-owners who treated their slaves very well. but the stereotype taught to the children in schools is to see something different.

Red Jones  posted on  2006-07-04   19:58:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Red Jones, noone222 (#1)

there were many slave-owners who treated their slaves very well. but the stereotype taught to the children in schools is to see something different.

The slavery of indians and whites is also NEVER taught in gubmint schools.

I believe the first legal slaveowner in America was black. I'll see if I can dig up the source.

bluegrass  posted on  2006-07-05   13:59:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Lady X, noone 222, Yertle Turtle, christine, Zipporah, robin, Zoroaster, BTP Holdings, Mind_Virus, Brian S, Jethro Tull, Tauzero, Red Jones, mugwort, Peetie Wheatstraw, HOUNDDAWG, Uncle Bill, Dakmar, tom007, aristeides, Eoghan, Diana, SKYDRIFTER (#3)

Found it...it took some digging.

I was incorrect in my earlier assertion ("I believe the first legal slaveowner in America was black"). Johnson was the first in Virginia and he was black.


COLORED FREEMEN AS SLAVE OWNERS IN VIRGINIA, Journal of Negro History, June 1916

"...In thus sustaining the claim of Anth. Johnson to the perpetual service of John Casor the court gave judicial sanction to the right of Negroes to own slaves of their own race. Indeed no earlier record, to our knowledge, has been found of judicial support given to slavery in Virginia except as a punishment for crime. Additional gleanings from the records show that this black slavemaster was a respected citizen of wealth and one of the very earliest Negro arrivals upon this continent, if, indeed, he was not one of the first twenty brought in on the Dutch man-of-war in 1619. Every doubt of the correctness of this assertion should be banished by a perusal of the somewhat detailed evidence upon which the conclusion is based."


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