Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Although the issue of slavery was widely debated -- both the ...

The third president knew that the whims of nature shaped Americans’ daily lives as farmers and enslavers Sara Georgini Historian, Massachusetts Historical Society Between July 1776 and June 1826, ...

and Thomas Jefferson to compose a declaration to frame Lee's resolution. Which, in good lawyerly form, would itemize the reasons why the independence of the 13 British North American colonies and ...

If we multiply this feeling by a million, we can almost understand how Thomas Jefferson must have felt when John Adams tasked ...

The film chronicles the life of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his pivotal role in the American Revolution and the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. It begins with Jefferson's early ...

But it also examines the famous Thomas Jefferson-penned Declaration of Independence ... had Jefferson write the first draft, but had a finished product edited by the other members of the Committee ...

The content of the Declaration of Independence was not entirely original. In addition to borrowing from his own writing, Jefferson relied on other declarations and pamphlets of the time ...

The Declaration of Independence, along with the preamble ... privilege to rule over other people without their consent. 2 Thomas Jefferson said that “the mass of mankind has not been born ...