It's been written that the most intense debating among the Second Continental Congress concerning the final The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America product to be presented to the world occurred over the following Thomas Jefferson-penned paragraph:
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where Men should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he has obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed again the Liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
Whether the most strenuous objections to the paragraph came from delegates from the pro-slavery States of South Carolina and Georgia, or from northern State delegates who represented many directly involved commercially in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, or from still-loyal delegates to the King & Parliament is perpetually debatable, the paragraph was voted by the Second Continental Congress to be entirely deleted from what we now call the Declaration of Independence.
So, so sad, because it would take another eighty-nine and a half years of American anti-slavery struggle, including maybe a million American lives sacrificed in "civil war" over that struggle, before America was finally able to totally eradicate the evil of human slavery from its shores.