| Linda Bolton - 2004 - 232 σελίδες
...Jefferson's draft came under attack because he included a section excoriating slavery, calling it a "cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty" (though he blamed this racist war on George III). The entire passage was deleted. Jefferson later remarked,... | |
| Scot French - 2004 - 400 σελίδες
..."candid world" to consider the last and perhaps most damning charge against the king: that he had "waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them... | |
| Nozomi Hayase - 2004 - 114 σελίδες
...eliminated in the final document. He spoke of King George with the sense of indictment: He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into... | |
| Alexander Tsesis - 2004 - 229 σελίδες
...acting "against human nature itself" by keeping open an international slave trade that violated the "rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people." South Carolina, which repeatedly appeared as a leader in the antebellum proslavery camp, opposed the... | |
| Gordon C. Rhea - 2009 - 292 σελίδες
...Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence, which denounced King George for waging "cruel war against human nature itself, violating...persons of a distant people who never offended him . . . carrying them into slavery." The offending provision was omitted. Later, white Charleston's eyes... | |
| Brian Weiner - 2009 - 258 σελίδες
...In his working draft of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson condemned George III for waging "cruel war against human nature itself, violating...the persons of a distant people who never offended him."39 Jefferson clearly criticizes slavery in Notes on the State of Virginia, although he delayed... | |
| Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - 2005 - 444 σελίδες
...the objection of the delegates to the Continental Congress from South Carolina and Georgia. fended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in...transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. Determined to... | |
| Jesse Macy - 2005 - 261 σελίδες
...its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of distant people who never offended htm, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another...transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobriam of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain, Determined to... | |
| Michael Lee Lanning - 2005 - 268 σελίδες
...Jefferson deleted it in order to preserve unity among the states. He (King George III) has waged a cruel war against human nature itself, violating its...sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere,... | |
| James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton - 2004 - 258 σελίδες
...Directly indicting Britain's role in the Atlantic slave trade, he wrote that the King had violated the "most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him." The Crown had kidThis ledger lists some of the slaves whom Thomas Jefferson owned in 1 774. Yet he... | |
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