"For the purposes of discussion of the declaration, Congress formed itself into a committee of the whole...

 

"The debate began, and Jefferson, miserable in the arguments that developed over his language, sat and took notes on it..."

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"Then, too, Jefferson had devoted nearly 200 words to a ringing indictment of the slave trade.

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"'He (George III) has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating 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 on 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 upon 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...'"

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Chapter 24

Debate

pps. 121-122

From "The Story of the Declaration of Independence" by Ira G. Corn, Jr. February 1977.

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The above referenced "notes" were taken after the reconvening of the Congress on July 2, 1776. They were not "notes." They were an actual declaration.

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You do not get to exclude them for any reason.

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11:29 am CST

June 29, 2022

Charity Colleen Crouse

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