Before Independence Day comes around, here’s what to know about July 4th fireworks. 26 copies of the original Declaration ...

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The content of the Declaration of Independence was not entirely original. In addition to borrowing from his own writing, Jefferson relied on other declarations and pamphlets of the time ...

Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence ... remaining allusion to the original paragraph on slavery ...