Throughout the continuation of the war several Patriots began to realize it was time to bring forward independence. Public's opinion began to change on January 1776 when Thomas Paine published a vibrant …show more content…
Though there was one section that had to be removed from the document, and that was Jefferson’s condemnation of King George’s support of slavery. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams made Jefferson remove this passage because the revolution was in need of support from all the colonies to succeed, and disapproving slavery would isolate pro-slavery colonists and indulge them to support the king. If this passage would have not been removed, American history might have been very different.
Thomas Jefferson’s passage on slavery is what caused a debate. The debate was among the delegates who were gathered at Philadelphia in 1776. This passage was one of the most important sections removed from the declaration of independence. The section was replaced with a passage about King George. Several years later Jefferson accused delegates from South Carolina and Georgia and Northern delegates for the removal of the