 | Scot French - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 400 pages
...a "candid world" to consider the last and perhaps most damning charge against the king: that he had "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 and carrying them... | |
 | Alexander Tsesis - Law - 2004 - 229 pages
...acting "against human nature itself" by keeping open an international slave trade that violated the "rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people." South Carolina, which repeatedly appeared as a leader in the antebellum proslavery camp, opposed the... | |
 | Gordon C. Rhea - History - 2009 - 292 pages
...Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence, which denounced King George for waging "cruel war against human nature itself, violating...persons of a distant people who never offended him . . . carrying them into slavery." The offending provision was omitted. Later, white Charleston's eyes... | |
 | Brian Weiner - Political Science - 2009 - 258 pages
...In his working draft of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson condemned George III for waging "cruel war against human nature itself, violating...the persons of a distant people who never offended him."39 Jefferson clearly criticizes slavery in Notes on the State of Virginia, although he delayed... | |
 | Michael Lee Lanning - History - 2005 - 268 pages
...Jefferson deleted it in order to preserve unity among the states. He (King George III) has waged a cruel war against human nature itself, violating its...sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere,... | |
 | Robin D. G. Kelley, Earl Lewis - History - 2005 - 320 pages
...Jefferson made the same charge in the Declaration of Independence. King George, Jefferson wrote, had "waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating...its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the person of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another... | |
 | James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton - History - 2004 - 258 pages
...Directly indicting Britain's role in the Atlantic slave trade, he wrote that the King had violated the "most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him." The Crown had kidThis ledger lists some of the slaves whom Thomas Jefferson owned in 1 774. Yet he... | |
 | Christopher Bryan - Religion - 2005 - 200 pages
...perceived. 51. Thomas Jefferson's first draft of the Virginia Constitution asserted against George III that "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... | |
 | Barbara A. McGraw, Jo Renee Formicola - Religion and politics - 2005 - 368 pages
...text.52 The most noteworthy deletion was an antislavery clause charging King George III with "waging cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty." Virginia delegate George Mason, who owned the lion's share of slaves among the delegates at the Philadelphia... | |
 | Steven Deyle - History - 2005 - 411 pages
...George III in the original draft of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson called the slave trade a "cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty" and claimed that the king perpetuated it because of his determination "to keep open a Markett where... | |
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He has waged cruel war against 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... 
