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Jefferson’s “original Rough draught” of the Declaration of Independence full audio
https://youtu.be/3-XJcYxRziE ^

Posted on 10/02/2019 5:01:48 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica

This is the full reading of the original rough draft version of the United States Declaration of Independence. It is read directly from the transcript, without the filter of historians trying to control the narrative in one direction or the other.


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: declaration; jefferson
Finally got this done!

https://librivox.org/short-nonfiction-collection-vol-066-by-various/

Number 13 in the list

1 posted on 10/02/2019 5:01:48 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
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To: ProgressingAmerica
My first, two-shot-whiskey half baked random thought was ""What???" they recorded it??-" --oh, wait...
2 posted on 10/02/2019 5:57:30 PM PDT by pigsmith (Liberals can't make the connection between their politics and the decline of everything around them.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Book


3 posted on 10/02/2019 5:58:27 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica
Now, having listened, I say: Well done!

Seems we are approaching a similar situation these days...

4 posted on 10/02/2019 6:05:18 PM PDT by pigsmith (Liberals can't make the connection between their politics and the decline of everything around them.)
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To: pigsmith; kalee; nicollo; miss marmelstein; Larry - Moe and Curly; Gondring; Kenny Bunk; ...

There is a lot we are going to record.


5 posted on 10/02/2019 6:53:24 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot leave history to "the historians" anymore.)
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6 posted on 10/02/2019 6:53:38 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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bttt


7 posted on 10/02/2019 7:09:01 PM PDT by snippy_about_it
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I did a comparison of Jefferson’s draft to the final and found 60% of his draft was eliminated, changed, or was added to


8 posted on 10/02/2019 7:28:26 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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The promise to begin impeachment inquiries should a Whig get elected president was eventually removed...


9 posted on 10/02/2019 7:57:17 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (The Democrats - Paid For By The Father of Lies. There is no truth in them.)
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Take note of the slavery clause.


10 posted on 10/02/2019 9:20:49 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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Take note of the slavery clause.


11 posted on 10/02/2019 9:20:49 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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bump


12 posted on 10/03/2019 4:00:24 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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Nice work.


13 posted on 10/04/2019 1:24:53 PM PDT by OneLoyalAmerican (In God I trust, all others provide citations.)
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