23+ Declaration Of Independence Slavery Quotes. Founders and the legacy of slavery and racial injustices they perpetuated, . The institution of slavery proved to be a difficult issue for the founding fathers to navigate. Jefferson included a clause in his initial draft of the declaration of independence denouncing george iii for forcing the slave trade onto the american . When the american colonies broke from england, the continental congress asked thomas jefferson to write the declaration of independence. Declaration of independence painted by john trumbull in 1819. Jefferson, decades before the declaration of independence, argued in court for the abolition of a slave. Declaration of independence, · thomas jefferson condemned the injustice of the slave trade and, by implication, slavery, but he also blamed the presence of . The court dismissed the case outright. From "rough draft of the declaration of independence," july 2, 1776. The history of frederick douglass' searing independence day oration.
