Updated with new details:  How do you read words that aren't there?  The towering idea of the Declaration of Independence, the passage on slavery deleted before its adoption, and the hole that silence has left behind

Updated with new details: How do you read words that aren't there? The towering idea of the Declaration of Independence, the passage on slavery deleted before its adoption, and the hole that silence has left behind

73. Declaration of Independence Deleted Passage, 1776

A look at documents that have had a profound effect on the world.  Telling the stories 
of these information objects, their genesis, contexts, impacts, and fates also tells the story of human society 
and its never ending evolution.

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A look at documents that have had a profound effect on the world. Telling the stories of these information objects, their genesis, contexts, impacts, and fates also tells the story of human society and its never ending evolution.

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73. Declaration of Independence Deleted Passage, 1776

73. Declaration of Independence Deleted Passage, 1776