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Which statement was in an early draft of the Declaration of Independence but not in the final version

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What isn't widely known, is that Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, in an early version of the Declaration, drafted a 168-word passage that condemned slavery as one of the many evils foisted upon the colonies by the British crown. The passage was cut from the final wording.

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