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To: jeffersondem

Let us know if he gives you an answer - extra points awarded if it is intelligible!


397 posted on 12/06/2017 10:50:32 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr; jeffersondem

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398 posted on 12/06/2017 11:14:27 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: rockrr
“Let us know if he gives you an answer - extra points awarded if it is intelligible!”

Sure.

Let's review the question: “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."

In answer, look at the original draft of the DOI. It includes this grievance: “He has incited treasonable insurrections of our fellow-citizens, with the allurements of forfeiture & confiscation of our property”

This reference to “treasonable insurrections” referred to the actions of the loyalists and is sometimes confused by first-time readers of the DOI with the term “domestic insurrections,” a euphemism for slave insurrections.

The entire passage relating to the treasonable insurrections of loyalists was stricken from the DOI. Somewhere in his writings Thomas Jefferson explains why Congress did not want to deliberately offend the English people (as opposed to the King.)

400 posted on 12/06/2017 3:26:51 PM PST by jeffersondem
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