Jefferson's Slavery Passage in the D of I

It didn't make the final cut but:

""He [the King] 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, 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 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 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."

There's an interesting article regarding the Founders' attitudes towards slavery in Reason magazine's issue celebrating the US' sestercentennial (a real word no matter what this spell check says). Take a gander here: https://reason.com/2026/05/05/how-the-slaveholding-founders-really-felt-about-slavery/

@no1marauder said
It didn't make the final cut but:

""He [the King] 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, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the oppro ...[text shortened]... gander here: https://reason.com/2026/05/05/how-the-slaveholding-founders-really-felt-about-slavery/

From ai

"Yes, Thomas Jefferson owned more than 600 enslaved people throughout his adult life. Despite famously writing that "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence, he relied heavily on the forced labor of Black men, women, and children to maintain his personal lifestyle and his Monticello plantation."

From me
Seems like a democrat saying do as I say, not as I do. The dude had 600 slaves. Spare me your adoration.
He was a typical democrat pointing his finger at someone else so nobody looks at his crimes.

@PuzZuLz said
From ai

"Yes, Thomas Jefferson owned more than 600 enslaved people throughout his adult life. Despite famously writing that "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence, he relied heavily on the forced labor of Black men, women, and children to maintain his personal lifestyle and his Monticello plantation."

From me
Seems like a democrat saying do as I ...[text shortened]... ation.
He was a typical democrat pointing his finger at someone else so nobody looks at his crimes.