Declaration of Independence

Today we celebrate the beginning of one of the few truly successful revolutions for independence in modern history.  Those brave men and women fought to not be ruled by kings, and they got the vast majority of it right.  We continue to have a cleft about what is right and wrong, which transcends political administrations.  The thing is, at the very beginning there was thought given to denouncing slavery.  Thomas Jefferson wrote:
"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 & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.  This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain.  Determined to keep open a market where Men should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.  And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he has obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed again the Liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another."  That would have been a game changer, but it did not make the final version.