The American Revolutionaries’ International War Against Slavery
by americansystemnow — March 19, 2019
Part I. Ben Franklin and Massachusetts Lead the Way
By Colin Lowry
March 19, 2019
In the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and John Adams, is a paragraph condemning King George III of Britain for the crime of promoting and enforcing the slave trade upon America. This paragraph was removed from the final draft that was signed by the delegates in 1776, by a request of a tiny minority from South Carolina and Georgia. It read as follows:
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.
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