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When Thomas Jefferson presented his rough draft of the Declaration of Independence to the Continental Congress, they decided to delete a portion that dealt with the issue of slavery. On this week's episode, we'll take a look at the part of the Declaration that was cut out of the document. We'll read it line by line, learn what it meant, and find out why delegates to the Congress decided that slavery shouldn't appear in the Declaration of Independence. Read more about this: http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/the-constitution-and-slavery https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h33.html http://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/rebellion/text6/jeffersondraftdecindep.pdf https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/slavery-declaration-of-independence-juy-4 http://mentalfloss.com/article/57634/thomas-jeffersons-version-declaration-independence US 101 on Facebook: http://facebook.com/usahistory101 US 101 on Twitter: http://twitter.com/usahistory101 US 101 on Instagram: http://instagram.com/usahistory101 US 101 on Snapchat: @usahistory101

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This video was published on 2018-07-04 05:17:25 GMT by @US-101 on Youtube. US 101 has total 13.1K subscribers on Youtube and has a total of 130 video.This video has received 207 Likes which are higher than the average likes that US 101 gets . @US-101 receives an average views of 4.6K per video on Youtube.This video has received 44 comments which are higher than the average comments that US 101 gets . Overall the views for this video was lower than the average for the profile.

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