How Did Dunmore's Proclamation Influence The Declaration Of Independence

On December 18, 1865, the 13th Amendment which promises that involuntary servitude and slavery are not to subsist within the United States or any regions in which are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, was officially and formally adopted into the Constitution of the United States. Several events occurred in order for this to happen. Before Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and before the start of the Civil War, the Republican Party sought to limit the continuation of slavery into new territories. After the election of President Lincoln in November of 1861, seven states located in the south seceded to become the “confederate states” because politicians in the south did not stand for the abolition of slavery. Through their perception,

Therefore, after the British lost the war, colonists sought to not end slavery because they perceived the black slaves as traitors. In the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson hinted at the fear of a full- blown slave revolt when he listed “exciting those very people (slaves) to rise in arms among us” amongst his list of complaints he held against the British. The action of betrayal amongst the slaves indirectly caused for the colonies, especially white Virginians, to declare for independence from

Delegates from South Carolina and Georgia who represented merchants who were involved in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade were to blame by Jefferson a decade later for the exclusion of the section on slavery. In the section that was left out of the final draft, Jefferson declared that slavery itself was wrong but then carried on to describe the slaves, due to their prior actions, as unwelcome individuals because of their decision to fight for the British in the Revolutionary War which was perceived as a threat to the lives if the white