“”Domestic insurrections” refers to actual insurrections of British loyalists against local patriots in Virginia & elsewhere in the months before July, 1776.”
That is an interesting comment.
May we see your sources for the term “domestic insurrections?”
Perhaps you should refer to your own reference materials, they being so definitive and authoritative and all - and nary a one referring to “women burning braziers” (or brassieres for that matter).
Insurrection: "The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government."
American Loyalists battling Patriot government forces would be a "domestic insurrection" in the eyes of our Founders.
If those loyalists included runaway servants & slaves, those slaves were said to "rise in arms".
Yes, an actual slave revolt would indeed qualify as "domestic insurrection", but there were no slave revolts, at that time.
Nor did Brits incite slave revolts, but rather for slaves to run away to join the Brits and "rise in arms".
And least we forget, the point of this definitional hair-splitting is to demonstrate that protecting slavery was not mentioned, even implicitly, in the Declaration of Independence.