If Jefferson, and the 13 slave states whose representatives signed the DOI, had wanted to put loyalists and their backers in England on the spot, they would have included a reference to “treasonable insurrections”, not "domestic insurrections."
I will take that as your informed & considered opinion.
“If Jefferson, and the 13 slave states whose representatives signed the DOI, had wanted to put loyalists and their backers in England on the spot, they would have included a reference to treasonable insurrections, not “domestic insurrections.”
That is an interesting comment.
May we see your data on that?