On June 11, 1776, the Second Continental Congress assigned five delegates to write the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. The Committee included Thomas Jefferson from Virginia ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character ... In 1776, as a Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress, he composed the Declaration of Independence, which exposed a contradiction ...

By the time Jefferson was born April 13, 1743, his country had already birthed its original sin of slavery, whose legacy continues to haunt.

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress ... was written by a slave owner. (Jefferson was far from the only slave owner in the Continental Congress; a full third of the delegates, from ...

Thomas Jefferson and George Washington hailed ... The passage was dropped by the Second Continental Congress. Though John Jay was a slaveowner, his views on the heinous institution would change.

We need a new Committee of Five, five patriotic and brave Republican Senators who will honor their oath to the Constitution ...

Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching ... When the document was presented to the Continental Congress on July 1, 1776, both northern and southern slaveholding ...

On a June evening in 1790, Thomas Jefferson hosted one ... like Pennsylvania, where the Continental Congress had first met. The second issue did not spring from the Constitution itself, but ...

The first session of the Second Continental Congress lasted from May to July, the second from September to December 1775. The Congress acted as a makeshift central government, creating the ...

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress ... was written by a slave owner. (Jefferson was far from the only slave owner in the Continental Congress; a full third of the delegates, from ...