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Declaration Rough Draft

Black and white scan of a handwritten draft of the Declaration, with several phrases crossed out and writing between margins.

Thomas Jefferson's early draft of the Declaration from June 1776. He drafted the Declaration in little more than two weeks, after which the Committee of Five and the Second Continental Congress made a total of 86 edits to the document.

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