A Summary View of the Rights of British America

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Jefferson drafted the text of this pamphlet in July 1774, after Parliament passed the Coercive (or Intolerable) Acts but before the meeting of the First Continental Congress. The Virginian had many grievances–including the slave trade, which he blamed on King George III–but he did not yet argue in favor of independence.


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