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First, Jefferson didn’t just speak “privately” against slavery; he wrote that message into the Declaration of Independence. Though Street doesn’t say so specifically, he seems to follow the widely held and utterly wrong progressive myth that Jefferson never meant to include black people in his statement “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” 

The fact that Jefferson absolutely did mean to include people of African descent in that statement is proved by a clause that Jefferson had inserted into his earlier draft, which was then stricken by Congress for fear that it would alienate South Carolina and Georgia. The King of Britain, Jefferson wrote, “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…. 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."

In other words, when Jefferson wrote the founding document of the United States, he deliberately and very publicly included Africans in his statement that “all men are created equal … endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” He understood very well that, if the U.S. could prevail in the Revolution, the Declaration would speak against slavery across the centuries.