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.
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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
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How would the Declaration of Independence look if slavery were not omitted from it ?
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What will happen if the government decides to bring slavery back into the United States of America.
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the king is distroying them
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