...phrase that blamed the greed of the king for the slave trade: He [King George III] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most...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...

...Jefferson's the 25 complaints against King George III. If Jefferson's charge that the King "has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most...persons of a distant people who never offended him" was in the Declaration, Rutledge fumed; South Carolina and Georgia would support the King, not the...

...racial and gendered identifications. waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's [sic] 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 death in their...

...Jefferson's draft came under attack because he included a section excoriating slavery, calling it a "cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty" (though he blamed this racist war on George III). The entire passage was deleted. Jefferson later remarked,...

...world" to consider the last and perhaps most damning charge against the king: that he had "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...

...eliminated in the final document. He spoke of King George with the sense of indictment: 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...

...acting "against human nature itself" by keeping open an international slave trade that violated the "rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people." South Carolina, which repeatedly appeared as a leader in the antebellum proslavery camp, opposed the...

...working draft of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson condemned George III for waging "cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most...the persons of a distant people who never offended him."39 Jefferson clearly criticizes slavery in Notes on the State of Virginia, although he delayed...

...Directly indicting Britain's role in the Atlantic slave trade, he wrote that the King had violated the "most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him." The Crown had kidThis ledger lists some of the slaves whom Thomas Jefferson owned in 1 774. Yet he...

...Jefferson deleted it in order to preserve unity among the states. He (King George III) has waged a cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most...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,...