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The most vehemently opposed change to Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence declared that the British King was responsible for the slave trade
He [referring to the King of England, George III] 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. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium 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 (Jefferson, "Rough Draft," para. 23).
Work Cited
Jefferson, Thomas. “Jefferson’s rough draft of The Declaration compared to the final signed version." American
Literature to 1865, Indian River State College Libraries, 2018,
https://irsc.libguides.com/AML2010/ThomasJefferson2.
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