Posted on 05/06/2020 5:05:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yep. You can find his draft online and compare it to the final. Only about 40% of his draft survived the Continental Congress. The rest was either dropped, severely edited, or they substituted their own language.
"In November of 1770, the [British] Board of Trade advised the King and his Council to disallow Virginia's act imposing an additional duty on imported slaves...According to the Board of Trade, Virginia's assembly intended to prohibit absolutely the slave trade. Such an action, in the board's opinion, would damage the economy of Great Britain and the colony. The lack of new slaves necessarily would limit tobacco production and would in turn raise prices, reduce consumption, and ultimately diminish the Crown's revenue from the tobacco trade...The Privy Council accepted the board's recommendation..."[A Planters' Republic, 1996, citing Board of Trade to His Majesty, 23 Nov. 1770]
"...the burgesses requested that the King 'remove all Restraints on your Majesty's Governors of this Colony, which inhibit their assenting to such laws as might check so very pernicious a Commerce.' " [A Planters' Republic, 1996, citing Journals of the House of Burgesses, 1770-1772]
These requests by the Virginia House of Burgesses can be found in other sources too.
Lefty prizes are worth nothing. Maybe less.
That statement could not be a more egregious lie. The charters they operated on from Britain demanded slavery and the one New England colony besides Virginia tried to abolish it, but had the law was nullified by the British. Between the Revolution and the Constitutional Convention, six of thirteen colonies abolished slavery.
Thank you GJones2 for great links.
You’re welcome.
And good information yourself.
btt
I think it was the Second Continental Congress as a whole which insisted on removing the bit blaming the king for the slave trade, not Adams and Franklin, whose modifications of Jefferson’s original text were pretty minor.
Jon Street should not be confused with J Street.
Pulitzer [the emphasis is on “pew”]
Very interesting links!
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