“Please! Jefferson is widely considered the author of the Declaration. He is also the author of the Kentucky Resolution. Did Jefferson misunderstand the Declaration?”
Please, southern secession defenders always fall back on Jefferson and the Kentucky ResolutionS and try to make some direct connection between them and the Declaration. The Kentucky Resolutions were pure Jefferson while the Declaration of Independence had four other immediate collaborators Adams, Franklin, Sherman and Livingston. Jefferson was sellected to write it. You can thank him for his ability to articulate so beatifully the ideas hashed out by all five of them and put them to paper. Franklin and Adams made about 48 corrections(including the insertion of three complete paragraphs) to the original draft and it went on to be reworked by the entire continental congress(making thirty-nine additional revisions). The thoughts reflected in the Declaration were not Jeffersons own. He wrote it. He didn’t author it. Ironic don’t you think that if Jefferson HAD his way, a condemnation of slavery would have been written into the Declaration. Notice btw that the Kentucky Resolutions were submitted to all the other states and rejected. As for Hamilton he, in response to the simular Virginia Resolution, wanted to send troops into that state “to act upon the laws and put Virginia to the Test of resistance.”
Sheesh, you obviously don't know jack - Jefferson DID condemn slavery in HIS draft of the DoI:
he [the king] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & 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 & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce