Great expression!
I think I'll save it for future reference. ;-)
The point bears repeating, since jeffersondem himself cannot acknowledge it:
Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence expression "excited domestic insurrections" does not refer to slave revolts, since there were none, zero, nada slave revolts at that time.
It does not refer to Dunmore's 1775 proclamation, since revolt is not what Dunmore called for.
Instead Dunmore called for servants of all kinds to join the British army.
And "excited domestic insurrections" does not refer to Indian raids on colonial settlers since that subject was addressed in its own expression.
What it clearly does refer to are several domestic insurrections even then happening between American loyalists and patriots.
In post #276 above I listed several of these domestic insurrections.
Bottom line: jeffersondem cannot accurately claim the Declaration of Independence in any way justified slavery.
Rather, it came within one draft of condemning slavery as being started & maintained by the King.
So as with so much else, what jeffersondem here claims is just mythology, not history.
“BroJoeK:Great expression! I think I'll save it for future reference. ;-)”
Yet another example of supposed in-group members influencing each other to create non-group stereotype.
You state “there were no, zero, nada slave revolts at that time.”
But Jefferson's long paragraph about slavery stated, “he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us . . .”
Let's be clear: you do not have a dispute with me. You have a dispute with Thomas Jefferson.