Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Historian Andrew Davenport arrived at Monticello with an extraordinary ...
When Thomas Jefferson was chosen to draft the Declaration of Independence, he had an exceedingly difficult task ahead of him. The 33-year-old planter, who had left law practice just before Britain’s ...
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Why the Declaration of Independence avoided slavery, Jefferson’s deleted passage and the North’s complicity
This episode examines the clause Thomas Jefferson drafted condemning the slave trade, why it was struck from the Declaration of Independence, and how both North and South were entangled in slavery’s ...
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