...the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has teamed cruel war against human nature itself, violating its...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...

...executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has waged cruel ivar against human nature itself, violating its most sacred...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...

...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 thfir transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare...

...style, of what he thought one of the greatest tyrannies of the government of George III. : "He hag waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating...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...

...it as one of the moving causes for throwing off our allegiance to the British monarch, that " he had waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating...persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery into another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in...

...item of Jefferson's the 25 complaints against King George III. If Jefferson's charge that the King "has waged cruel war against human nature itself,...persons of a distant people who never offended him" was in the Declaration, Rutledge fumed; South Carolina and Georgia would support the King, not the...

...to edit out the phrase that blamed the greed of the king for the slave trade: He [King George III] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating...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...

...racial and gendered identifications. waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's [sic] 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...

...ended up being eliminated in the final document. He spoke of King George with the sense of indictment: He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into...

...Jefferson's draft came under attack because he included a section excoriating slavery, calling it a "cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty" (though he blamed this racist war on George III). The entire passage was deleted. Jefferson later remarked,...