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The Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence. Lee Resolution. June 7 Richard Henry Lee

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The Declaration of Independence

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  1. The Declaration of Independence

  2. Lee Resolution • June 7 • Richard Henry Lee • "Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."

  3. The Committee Thomas Jefferson John Adams Benjamin Franklin Robert Livingston Roger Sherman

  4. Drafting the Declaration • Three Stages 1. written by Jefferson 2. changes made by Franklin and Adams 3. changes made by Congress

  5. Slavery and the Declaration [King George] has waged cruel war on 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. - removed from the final version of the Declaration of Independence

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