At the point when Thomas Jefferson incorporated an entry assaulting subjugation in his draft of the Declaration of Independence, it started the most extreme level-headed discussion among the representatives assembled at Philadelphia in the spring and late-spring of 1776. Jefferson's entry on subjugation was the essential segment expelled from the last record. It was supplanted with a more uncertain section about King George's affectation of "residential insurgences among us." Decades later Jefferson faulted the evacuation of the entry for delegates from South Carolina and Georgia and Northern agents who spoke to shippers who were at the time effectively associated with the Trans-Atlantic slave exchange. Jefferson's unique entry on subjection shows up beneath.

He has pursued a pitiless war against human instinct itself, disregarding its most consecrated privileges of life and freedom in the people of a removed people who never insulted him, enamoring and conveying them into subjugation in another half of the globe or to cause hopeless demise in their transportation thither. This piratical fighting, the insult of unbeliever powers, is the fighting of the Christian King of Great Britain. Resolved to keep open a market where Men ought to be purchased and sold, he has undermined his negative for stifling each authoritative endeavor to restrict or control this vile trade. Furthermore, that this gathering of repulsions may need no reality of recognized bite the dust, he is presently energizing those exceptionally individuals to ascend in arms among us, and to buy that freedom of which he has denied them, by killing the general population on whom he has obtruded them: along these lines paying off previous wrongdoings carried out again the Liberties of one individual, with violations which he encourages them to confer against the lives of another.