[phi11yguy19]

You may be thinking of something in -- or not in -- the Constitution, because it doesn't look like you're right about the Declaration.

Like I said, original draft of the Declaration, both in the Jefferson Papers, or AC Ch. 25, supporting doc 1:

"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 and 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 and 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 for 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.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injuries."

Too much typing to refute your other points here, but it's out there. Ex., many states amended their constitutions after the Haitian slaves slaughtered thousands of French under Napolean, caused in part by inflamatory literature (a tactic tried by Northerners, esp. the Union League which is only a few miles from my home!)

[southernsunshine]

...(a tactic tried by Northerners, esp. the Union League which is only a few miles from my home!)

phi11guy19 - You are the first person I've seen mention the Union League. I see posts on the KKK quite frequently, but you're the only one I've seen mention the League. The Klan is indefensible, but the League was no better.

The parts of US history which are highlighted and the parts which are suppressed never cease to amaze me. US history should be presented just like it happened.

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Like I said, original draft of the Declaration, both in the Jefferson Papers, or AC Ch. 25, supporting doc 1:

I didn't say Jefferson didn't write that in an early draft of the Declaration. He did.

You said it was taken out because Northerners wanted it removed.

So far as I've been able to find out, it was because South Carolina and Georgia planters wanted more slaves.

There is some discussion about whether Northern merchants opposed an immediate ban on the slave trade in the Constitution, but I haven't found that said about the Declaration.

It may be that Northerners and Southerners joined together to suppress the passage, I don't know, but it definitely wasn't a case of Southerners supporting an attack on the slave trade in the Declaration of Independence and the Northerners opposing it.