Steve Erickson - Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author...

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Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compel himself to be better than he was - which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson's own, would sign it.

Steve Erickson

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Nichts zeigt den amerikanischen Widerspruch überzeugender als den, dass der Autor der Unabhängigkeitserklärung, ein Sklavenbesitzer, eine Klausel zur Sklaverei in das Dokument geschrieben hat - als ob er sich zwingen sollte, besser zu sein als er selbst -, die dann so herausgeholt werden musste Südstaaten, darunter auch Thomas Jeffersons, würden es unterschreiben.

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