The Slavery Clause in the Declaration of Independence Edwards / Stone

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Description Clips from the Movie "1776", a movie ironically *criticized* for being too historically accurate. These clips show the role slavery played in the Declaration of Independence, and how Thomas Jefferson wrote against the institution in the rough draft of it, which eventually was expunged due to the threat of the South voting "nay" in the resolution -- presented by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia - to become independent (which had to be a unanimous vote). Edward Rutledge of South Carolina was the one who fought against the "slavery clause" which was eventually stricken, and the ironic thing is, he ultimately released his own slaves later in life. Here is the entire paragraph regarding slavery in the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence... "He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivatng and 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 and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people for whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.]"

Tags 1776, Adams, Ben, Benjamin, Declaration, Franklin, Independence, Jefferson, John, Slave, Slavery, States, Thomas, United

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Creator: Edwards / Stone
Video title: The Slavery Clause in the Declaration of Independence
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