...them to America. This is a specific charge in his original draft of the Declaration of Independence: 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 and carrying them...

...against England to justify violent rebellion, and the original Declaration attacked the king for waging "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...

...HAS WAGED cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's [sic] 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 transportation...

...which deserves to be quoted again in this new context. Jefferson accused King George III of "[waging] 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...

...of it, including the following paragraph condemning slavery and its endorsement by King George III: He has waged cruel war against human nature itself,...incur miserable death in their transportation thither. After objections from slaveholding delegates, that paragraph, which went on to condemn the king for...

...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...or to incur miserable death in their transportation hither," but these words are omitted in the final document 1777 Vermont prohibits slavery in its constitution;...

...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...miserable death in their transportation thither." He continued, "This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN...

...Declaration of Independence included a scathing attack upon slavery and the slave trade: [The King] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating...carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere. . . . This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king...

...Thomas Jefferson, originally contained language accusing the British king of pursuing slavery, of waging "cruel war against human nature itself, violating...distant people who never offended him, captivating them and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in the transportation...

...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...distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation...