The Final Version of the Declaration of Independence

question 25

Multiple Choice

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.

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