Article by a peabrain.
The word "citizen" (or citizens) isn't used frequently throughout the final draft of the Declaration. It's used ONCE.
He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.Up until the time Mr. Jefferson wrote this, the people he was speaking of considered them "subjects." But I guess the Sally Hemings BS sort of died out and those who wish to demean one of the giants among the Framers need to put forward other nonsense.
ML/NJ
It's the Associated Press. Aren't peabrain and AP synonyms?