Dan Snow's History HitThe Declaration of Independence

Jefferson's Deleted Slavery Passage Exposed

39:40–40:47 · 67s

Gerstle reveals the paragraph on the slave trade that Jefferson wanted included, highlighting the founding father's personal hypocrisy and the political impossibility of condemning slavery in 1776.

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