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  1. The anti-slavery clause removed from the final draft because of the long debate over the issue of slavery.
  2. The declaration of independence is an important founding document of the united states because it expresses the ideals on which the United States was founded and it is reason for separation from Great Britain.
  3. The removal of slavery clause was mostly fueled by political and economic expediencies.
  4. Eight of the approximately 50 delegates believed to have attended the parliamentary vote on independence in early July 1776 did not sign the proclamation. John Alsop, George Clinton, John Dickinson, Charles Humphries, and Robert R. Clinton, Livingston, and Wisner were on a mission outside Congress when the signing took place. Willing and Humphries voted against the Independence Act and were replaced in the Pennsylvania delegation before signing it on August 2. Rogers voted for the Independence Act, but ceased to be a delegate on 2 August. He also resigned rather than put his name on the document because he insisted on reconciliation with Britain. Dickinson refused to sign the proclamation, believing it to be premature, but he remained in Congress. George Reed voted against the independence resolution and Robert Morris abstained, but both signed the declaration.
  5. Between July 1 and July 3, congressional delegates debated the document, during which time they excised Jefferson's anti-slavery clause.
  6. The passage was cut from the final wording is the 168-word passage that condemned slavery.
  7. The declaration of independence declares a complete break with Britain and its King and claims the powers of an independent country.
  8. The 168-word passage that condemned slavery was deleted from the first draft of the declaration of independence.

Why was the slavery clause deleted from the declaration of independence?

It cause by political and economic expediencies. Southern plantations, a key engine of the colonial economy, needed free labor to produce tobacco, cotton and other cash crops for export back to Europe. Northern shipping merchants, who also played a role in that economy, remained dependent on the triangle trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas that included the traffic in enslaved Africans.

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