I was just not. That's just something altogether unexpected.

Not only a declaration of our independence, but of the rights of all men.

This is well said, very well said,

very well said.

The Christian King, our Great Britain,

has waged cruel war against human nature itself in the persons of a distant

people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another

hemisphere. You, you lay the evils of slavery at the feet of the king, but you say nothing of slavery itself, sir.

Now surely, if the trade is outlawed but ownership is not then

those unfortunate Negro still in servitude will become a more lucrative commodity.

Well, that's not what I intended, Dr Franklin.

Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such that I own that neither I nor

any man has any immediate solution to the problem.

But it is no matter the issue before us is independence and not emancipation.

Dr Franklin, this document is something our friends in the Congress will debate, but I would be very surprised if they will

countenance and attack on slavery.

No. We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal, etc.

Sacred and undeniable.

Smacks of the pulpit.

Does it?

These truths are self-evident, are they not?

Perhaps?

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