 | Kathryn Kish Sklar, James Brewer Stewart - Political Science - 2007 - 409 pages
...and most American whites were not prepared to accept Jefferson's claim that the slave system was "a cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty." But by December 1833, in the wake of Britain's legal emancipation of nearly eight hundred thousand... | |
 | Alan Axelrod - History - 2007 - 398 pages
...Jefferson's rough draft of the declaration included an angry condemnation of King George III for having "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... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - Religion - 2007 - 340 pages
...property: he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life & 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... | |
 | David Armitage - History - 2007 - 332 pages
...contended, has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life & 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... | |
 | Erik S. Root - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 268 pages
...the slaves' freedom present in the Summary, is also evident in the original draft of the Declaration: 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 incure miserable death in their... | |
 | Marc Karnis Landy, Sidney M. Milkis - History - 2008 - 41 pages
...called "the vehement philippic against Negro slavery," Jefferson charged King George III with waging "cruel war against human nature itself, violating...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,... | |
 | Organization of American Historians - United States - 2008 - 354 pages
...conclude?3 We also discussed the following clause, removed from the final draft of the Declaration: 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... | |
 | Omar H. Ali - History - 2008 - 256 pages
...would include a line in his draft of the Declaration, later removed, denouncing the slave trade as a "cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people." But he does not denounce slavery itself.2 As he proclaims... | |
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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... 
