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To: HandyDandy
“Precisely with the inception of the Declaration of Independance the abolition of slavery was commenced in “the North”.”

You do know the northern states voted to cite the King's interference with slavery as one of the reasons independence from Britain was needed, don't you?

72 posted on 03/22/2017 8:51:16 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem
I hope that you are not referring to the "domestic insurrection" part. Otherwise, and yet again, I have to ask you to please be more specific. This is becoming tedious. I feel like I am doing all the heavy lifting.

You do know (I mean obviously you do with a name like "jeffersondem") that the following was stricken from the final version:

""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 upon 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."

Thomas Jefferson

73 posted on 03/22/2017 9:36:12 PM PDT by HandyDandy ("I reckon so. I guess we all died a little in that damn war.")
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