{"id":34759,"date":"2024-07-10T12:20:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T19:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=34759"},"modified":"2024-07-10T12:20:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T19:20:46","slug":"jefferson-the-abolitionist-declaration-of-independence-one-paragraph-was-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/10\/jefferson-the-abolitionist-declaration-of-independence-one-paragraph-was-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"JEFFERSON THE ABOLITIONIST: DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE\u2014ONE PARAGRAPH WAS REMOVED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jefferson the Abolitionist: Declaration of Independence\u2014One Paragraph was Removed\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VQzqKO4rLB8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Greg Palast \u2022 Jul 4, 2023 On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence with only one paragraph removed: Thomas Jefferson\u2019s attack on slavery. \u201c[King George] has waged cruel war against human nature itself,\u201d Jefferson wrote, \u201cviolating its most sacred rights of life &amp; liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating &amp; carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.\u201d It was the ONLY passage of the Declaration removed by a vote of the Continental Congress. I am not trying to excuse Jefferson\u2019s rank hypocrisy as an abolitionist with humans held as property. Rather, I want to underscore that slavery was not an accepted part of our political culture. In fact, the colony of Georgia OUTLAWED slavery until just before the revolution when King George gave the Habersham family a charter to bring Africans to the colony. Local German and Swiss farmers objected strongly to bringing in Africans, petitioning the King to reverse his decision. They wrote: \u201cIt is shocking to human Nature that any Race of Mankind and their Posterity should be sentenced to perpetual Slavery.\u201d The colonists also understood that once Africans were brought in to work for zero wages that they would be impoverished having to compete with the new \u201cplantation system.\u201d I was taught in school that slavery was simply accepted at the time of the Revolution \u2014 and that\u2019s just no so. The hesitation to abolish slavery led to the horrid \u201ccompromise\u201d in the Constitution, allowing enslavement to continue, that would lead directly to our Civil War. We are re-making our documentary connecting the history of enslavement and vote suppression into a new, expanded film, Vigilantes Inc., America\u2019s New Vote Suppression Hitmen, to launch in September ahead of the Election. We are warning about the new attacks on voting rights \u2014 made possible by the enforced historic amnesia about enslavement and Jim Crow imposed by new laws restricting the teaching of history in Georgia, Florida, Oklahoma, and beyond. Join us at:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbDNtVjFIT2tQTUFUQmlXXy1xaDVSNlJBcmstQXxBQ3Jtc0trOWp5MkdkVjB4MFAzYVN2aDdSQ04tYk14WjE0T1kyb2pCbTBwVTZwV1UxLVBJdG5SU1BkZUVycERSZ2dfdFY1TDhWWllZaGdORzlDZnZXZGRReS1kRk1wako1R3NKM0loSk1qZTJwc1U5b09CYmVPcw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fpalastinvestigativefund.org%2Fvigilantes-2024%2F&amp;v=VQzqKO4rLB8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/palastinvestigativefund.org\/v\u2026<\/a>&nbsp;Vigilantes, Inc.: America\u2019s New Vote Suppression Hitmen. Narrated by Rosario Dawson Coming September 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Palast \u2022 Jul 4, 2023 On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence with only one paragraph removed: Thomas Jefferson\u2019s attack on slavery. \u201c[King George] has waged cruel war against human nature itself,\u201d Jefferson wrote, \u201cviolating its most sacred rights of life &amp; liberty in&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/10\/jefferson-the-abolitionist-declaration-of-independence-one-paragraph-was-removed\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34761,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34759\/revisions\/34761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}