The founding fathers wanted American Liberty. In Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of Independence, he condemned the injustice of the slave trade and also blamed the presence of enslaved Africans in North America on the British. Jefferson therefore acknowledged that slavery violated the natural rights of the enslaved, while at the same time he excused Americans of any responsibility for owning slaves themselves. The Continental Congress rejected the tortured logic of this passage by deleting it from the final document, but this decision also signaled the …show more content…
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