| Robin D. G. Kelley, Earl Lewis - 2005 - 320 páginas
...the same charge in the Declaration of Independence. King George, Jefferson wrote, had "waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the person of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another... | |
| Steven Deyle - 2005 - 411 páginas
...in the original draft of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson called the slave trade a "cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty" and claimed that the king perpetuated it because of his determination "to keep open a Markett where... | |
| Barbara A. McGraw, Jo Renee Formicola - 2005 - 368 páginas
...The most noteworthy deletion was an antislavery clause charging King George III with "waging cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty." Virginia delegate George Mason, who owned the lion's share of slaves among the delegates at the Philadelphia... | |
| David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 páginas
...themselves deeply divided. The king, Jefferson wrote in his draft for Congress, "has waged a 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... | |
| Mao Tun Baghatur - 2005 - 596 páginas
.... 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 to slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their... | |
| Christopher Bryan - 2005 - 200 páginas
...Jefferson's first draft of the Virginia Constitution asserted against George III that "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... | |
| Will Morrisey - 2005 - 294 páginas
...Declaration of Independence, Jefferson made this charge in strong terms: the king, he wrote "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." This was the "warfare of the CHRISTIAN... | |
| Ian Frederick Finseth - 2006 - 648 páginas
...George III the following: "[H]e has 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 & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere . . . [A]nd that this assemblage of... | |
| Gregg Barak, Paul Leighton, Jeanne Flavin - 2007 - 348 páginas
...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... | |
| David Brion Davis - 2006 - 464 páginas
...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... | |
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