Jefferson's
personal, political and moral ambivalence towards
abolition was resolved as he wrote the Declaration
paragraph that called for abolition.
But America's social, cultural and
spiritual
ambivalence towards abolition was
clearly and
boldly imagined and expressed as Jefferson's paragraph was
deleted.
In a somewhat amazing way,
Jefferson brought
America's Dark Story thread of slavery to Light, a
Light that was quickly placed under
America's bushel.
How the impact of Jefferson's legacy was
experienced by slaves and Afro-Americans read Frederick
Douglass' notably "What
to the slave is the 4th of July?" (1852)
Continue—Jefferson "deleted"
