Steve Erickson quoteSteve Erickson [1950-0]
American Novelist 
Quote rank: 224
| Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compel himself to be better than he was - which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson's own, would sign it. |
Independence
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