Edited Out

No one taught me that what we know as the Declaration of Independence was actually an edited version. Yes, the original had something in it that many didn't want to declare.

Here's the part of the Declaration of Independence that Thomas Jefferson wrote that didn't make it into final version:

"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." - 

See more at: http://www.blackpast.org/primary/declaration-independence-and-debate-over-slavery#sthash.YYpEvr2t.awgVeU5n.dpuf

The reason is pretty obvious, but, if you want the whole story, please go to the link. Remember this as you go to your parades, picnics, and fireworks today. And ask yourself why must we always leave someone out of our freedoms.