Becker's 1922 The Declaration of Independence shows the anti-slave trade clause in three different versions of The Declaration, in the last of which it is crossed out by the Congressional committee. https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/be...

This has been well known for at least a century. Becker called it "famous" in 1922. It did not wait until 1947 to be discovered and even 1947 is not new.

The Declaration for separating from Britain of course had to be unanimous. That knowledge isn't new either. Congress voted for the final version on July 19, 1776 with the title The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America and that it was to be signed by every member of Congress.

But what non-unanimous vote in the Continental Congress against slavery, blocked only by South Carolina and Georgia, are you referring to? What was the Congressional resolution and what did it have to do with The Declaration?

There were several slave holders or slaves traders in, or represented in, the Continental Congress. The First Continental Congress in 1774 resolved to cease the slave trade by December 1, 1774 but that was not implemented.

Jefferson wrote in his Notes on the Congressional committee's deletion of his anti-slave trade clause in The Declaration: "The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it. Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures; for tho’ their people have very few slaves themselves yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others."

Other accounts say that all the southern states were adamantly opposed to the anti-slave trade clause.

The anti-slave trade clause deleted to make The Declaration and separation from Britain politically feasible is not "documentation that our forefathers were against being forced to have slavery under the king's rule". To Jefferson and some supporters his anti-slavery clause was very important, but many of them were for slavery, and while the British introduced the slave trade in America, it continued to be accepted, especially on a large scale for the southern plantations and by the slave traders everywhere. The King did not force that.

How many really got it though. The point now is that we documented proof although...it won't make a damn bit of difference.

Thanks, I'll check out the play 1776.

OUC, this issue was the center point of the musical play and movie 1776. The play was the winner of the Tony award for best musical play in 1969.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_(f...
Edward Rutledge, the representative of South Carolina, was cast as the evil Southern slave owner who opposed Jefferson. The issue of the need to be unanimous was also covered in detail. "Portions of the dialogue and some of the song lyrics were taken directly from the letters and memoirs of the actual participants of the Second Continental Congress."
I won't be surprised when the media ban 1776 as racist. Instead of praising it, they praise Hamilton, a disgusting play deifying the great enslaver of every human being in America.
(If you watch 1776 you will also find some typical Broadway musical romantic comedy, but the real history lesson is evident.)

Shouldn't need a subscription for http://glennbeck.com.
Here it is on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBlaze/vid...
I am listening right now and I do not have a FB account.

The writing is terrible but I was able to make out some of the paragraph on slavery.
From what I understand the draft from 47 was the only draft that mentions slavery. They deleted it because the vote to abolish was Not unanimous.

If no one else can get the video, (my wife could get it and she has no sub. to the blaze)?...then, I'll delete the link and just keep the draft, which is our documentation that our forefathers were against being forced to have slavery under the kings rule.

What is the url for the video? The name you gave is not displayed on the page when I open it (in two different browsers). Does it required a blaze tv subscription?

The draft is a "rough draft" all right -- I can't read his handwriting. Is there a typed "transcript"?

I have read Carl Becker's The Declaration of Independence, which included all the known drafts, but it was first published in 1922 and last updated in 1942, years before a 1947 discovery of another draft as described by Beck. I wonder if there is really a significantly different passage. It has been well known that Jefferson's grievances against the king included the British introduction of the slave trade in America and that it was deleted by Congress. That much is described in the book.

The video is at the Titled link, it's a count down timer. The important part starts at -5:30 mins and it's a bit different than what I get as a subscriber but includes the information. (1st video titled: The Left CAN'T BEAT the Declaration of Independence)

Here is a link to the draft itself, (I'll include it above) You can enlarge it to read, on this site: https://www.loc.gov/resource/mtj1.001...
The above link will take you to page 3 of 4, it's the part Glenn is talking about. You may however,toggle back to the previous pages if you wish.
The key to all of this is: it had to be Unanimous!

Where are the video and the draft?

2 of the thirteen states voted to keep slavery in a (required) unanimous vote on whether to keep or abolish slavery.
It had to be unanimous in a petition to the King for independence. Because of South Carolina and Georga's vote to keep slavery while the 11 remaining states said No Slavery, is why we don't find a call to end it in the Declaration of Independence.
But we still find the phrase: "ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL" in the "Unanimous Declaration of Independence".