Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky
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first heard Jul 2026
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And so he really was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
There was always an expectation that he was going into politics because that's what men of his class did.
He was a beautiful writer.
And again, it should come from Virginia.
It should be a unified process.
So he spent the next couple of weeks working on a draft.
Benjamin Franklin and John Adams then made some tweaks to that draft before they submitted it to Congress in early July.
This was a very controversial statement.
A lot of people at the Continental Congress felt that it muddied the waters.
It made the argument for independence much more complicated because they weren't setting about to eradicate slavery.
They were setting about to separate themselves.
And so they ended up removing that clause, removing that offense against the king so that there is no mention of slavery in the ultimate declarations.
The Declaration's preamble is beautiful.
It is extraordinary language that inspired other revolutions for many decades thereafter.
But in and of itself, it was actually a document that was trying to explain why they were taking this action.
It was very much an international-facing document.
statement of purpose.
It explained to the other monarchies around the globe that they weren't anti-monarchy per se.
They were trying to reassure the fears of the French and the Spanish that they weren't trying to destroy all monarchies, but that there were very specific grievances that had not been addressed, and therefore they were justified in taking this action.
Historians generally like to avoid statements like this one person was indispensable, but in the case of George Washington, it is really accurate and we can't overstate his importance to the revolution because he was the only person probably that could have held the Continental Army together.
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