https://freerepublic.com/tag/bannedbyslaveholders/ en-us Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:34:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4346354/posts Blaze Media pioneer Glenn Beck has apparently been sharing this unearthed paragraph since at least 2020, but I heard it for the first time just days ago. It's a passage Thomas Jefferson wrote for a draft of the Declaration of Independence - a paragraph I have never encountered. Given that I've taught U.S. History and Government for two decades, that fact stuns me as much as it embarrasses and frustrates me. Every year, I've made my government students memorize the Declaration's preamble - those immortal words about all men being endowed by their Creator with the unalienable rights of life,... Not The Bee https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4346354/posts#comment Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:34:17 GMT