 | Clint Johnson - History - 2007 - 288 pages
...of it, including the following paragraph condemning slavery and its endorsement by King George III: He has waged cruel war against human nature itself,...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... | |
 | Audrey Fisch - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 230 pages
...pursuit of happiness"; Jefferson also writes in a draft statement that "the present King of England . . . 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... | |
 | Michael Warren - History - 2007 - 235 pages
...Declaration of Independence included a scathing attack upon slavery and the slave trade: [The King] 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. . . . This piratical warfare, the... | |
 | Joseph F. Healey, Eileen O'Brien - Social Science - 2007 - 505 pages
...Thomas Jefferson, originally contained language accusing the British king of pursuing slavery, of waging "cruel war against human nature itself, violating...persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating them and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death... | |
 | Randall Norman Desoto - Religion - 2007 - 266 pages
...which was submitted to the Continental Congress. In it, he penned, "He [King George III] has waged a 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... | |
 | Johannes Steffens - 2007 - 49 pages
...transatlantischen Sklavenhandel: He [George III.] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their... | |
 | Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom - History - 2007 - 248 pages
...committee's version includes as one of the most serious charges against the king the accusation that he had "waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating...its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the person of a distant people . . . |by| carrying them into slavery." There can be no doubt that Jefferson... | |
 | Franklin E. Rutledge - Political Science - 2007 - 264 pages
...on die slave trade, in which die Virginia slaveholder, had charged die King of England widi having "waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in die persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying diem into slavery."... | |
 | David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim - Reference - 2007 - 392 pages
...himself owned slaves, assailed King George III (1738-1820) for allowing the importation of slaves: "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... | |
 | Marc Aronson - Race - 2007 - 346 pages
...complaint against the English is that they brought slavery to America. Jefferson called slavery "a cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty." Jefferson's passage — which Georgia and South Carolina insisted on removing from the Declaration... | |
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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... 
