What you might not know about the Declaration of Independence - Kenneth C. Davis
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In June 1776, a little over a year after the start of the American Revolutionary War, the US Continental Congress huddled together in a hot room in Philadelphia to talk independence. Kenneth C. Davis dives into some of the lesser known facts about the process of writing the Declaration of Independence and questions one very controversial omission.
What might have happened if the men in Congress who opposed slavery did not go along with the decision to remove Jefferson’s reference to slavery?
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- Educator Kenneth C. Davis
- Animator Henry Chung, Mark Storer, Noel Wong, Alexandra Kogl, Mike Field
- Artist Ieuan Protheroe
- Narrator Kenneth C. Davis
