The final version of the Declaration of Independence
a. avoided any reference to slavery so that American slaveholders could not be accused of hypocrisy.
b. included a denunciation of King George III for inflicting the slave trade—a “cruel war against human nature itself”—on the colonists.
c. expressed sympathy for the slaves held in bondage in the American colonies, and looked forward to the day that they would be emancipated.
d. prominently included the words “slave” and “slavery” to describe the condition into which the colonists would fall if they did not resist unjust British laws.
d. prominently included the words “slave” and “slavery” to describe the condition into which the colonists would fall if they did not resist unjust British laws.
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