Randa Abdel-Fattah
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3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Jefferson kicks things off and starts writing a first draft.
Jefferson basically locks himself away in a place he rented.
He's rented a room on Market Street in Philadelphia.
And Ben Franklin's house is closer to the river on Market Street.
So he sends it by hand.
Not his hand.
He's not going to walk it over himself, but someone's hand.
We can even imagine maybe Robert Hemings, the enslaved valet, has to bring it down two blocks to Franklin's home.
Robert Hemings, by the way, is the older brother of Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman who was widely believed to have given birth to several of Jefferson's children, children who would also be enslaved by him.
So the draft is delivered to Benjamin Franklin, and there's a note attached to it.
Something along the lines, I'm paraphrasing, would the good Dr. Franklin, with his great wisdom, please do what he can to improve this draft because he is much more familiar, etc.
This first draft begins, We hold these truths to be sacred.
You go, sacred?
But then you see the black printer's pen, Ben Franklin's printer's pens with backslashes, crossing out sacred.
And written in next to it.
The word self-evident.
He's saying we're trying to create a new type of nation where our rights come from the rationality and from reason, not from the dictator dogma of a particular religion.
Sacred does automatically take you to a religious connotation.
Yeah, it takes a religious connotation, but they were deists.
They did not believe in a particular dogma or particular religion.
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