Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document – as if to compel himself to be better than he was – which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson’s own, would sign it.

Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document – as if to compel himself to be better than he was – which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson’s own, would sign it.

– Steve Erickson –

© License assigned to YouCanQuoteME. License CC BY-NC 4.0

📲 Copy this QR code to share the phrase wherever you want