was there an anti-slavery clause in Jefferson's rough draft of the Declaration of Independence?

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Answer 1

On July 2, 1776, the "anti-slavery clause" was removed from the Declaration of Independence at the insistence of Edward Rutledge, delegate from South Carolina. Rutledge threatened that South Carolina would fight for King George against her sister colonies. He asserted that he had "the ardent support of proslavery elements in North Carolina and Georgia as well as of certain northern merchants reluctant to condemn a shipping trade largely in their own bloodstained hands." Fearful of postponing the American Revolution, opponents of slavery, who were in the clear majority, made a "compromise." Thus, July 4, 1776, marks for African Americans not Independence Day but the moment when their ancestors' enslavement became fixed by law as well as custom in the new nation.

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was there an anti-slavery clause in Jefferson's rough draft of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 3

It was removed as part of a compromise between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions. The compromise resulted in the clause that no slaves could be imported after 1807.

Answer 4

The "anti-slave clause" was ment to last for the day.It didn't entent to become a long time thing.

Answer 5

Yes

Answer 6

Yes but it didnt hold up. Jefferson hisself had many slaves but at the time had a radical idea " for the day" that all slaves should be set free.

Answer 7

yes

it read:

He has incited treasonable insurrections of our fellow citizens, with the allurements of forfeiture and confiscation of our property.

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, 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 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.

Answer 8

yes there was, it was removed during the negotiations in the full congress prior to adoption.