[net-gold] HISTORY: UNITED STATES: The Declaration of Independence: Jeffersons Critical Change
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HISTORY: UNITED STATES:
The Declaration of Independence: Jeffersons Critical Change
The Declaration of Independence: Jeffersons Critical Change
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After 234 years, Americans do not often think about what our founding
fathers risked in declaring independence from Britain. Behind the
beautiful script and elegant signatures is a story of suffering and
sacrifice.
<snip>
The Washington Post reports on this critical change as follows.
But in a moment when history took a sharp turn, Jefferson sought quite
methodically to expunge the word, to wipe it out of existence and write
over it. Many words were crossed out and replaced in the draft, but only
one was obliterated.
Over the smudge, Jefferson then wrote the word citizens.
No longer subjects to the crown, the colonists became something different:
a people whose allegiance was to one another, not to a faraway monarch.
Jefferson changed 'subjects' to 'citizens' in Declaration of Independence
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 3, 2010
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No longer subjects to the crown, the colonists became something different:
a people whose allegiance was to one another, not to a faraway monarch.
Scholars of the revolution have long speculated about the "citizens" smear
-- wondering whether the erased word was "patriots" or "residents" -- but
now the Library of Congress has determined that the change was far more
dramatic.
Using a modified version of the kind of spectral imaging technology
developed for the military and for monitoring agriculture, research
scientists teased apart the mystery and reconstructed the word that
Jefferson banished in 1776.
"Seldom can we re-create a moment in history in such a dramatic and living
way," Library of Congress preservation director Dianne van der Reyden said
at Friday's announcement of the discovery.
"It's almost like we can see him write 'subjects' and then quickly decide
that's not what he wanted to say at all, that he didn't even want a record
of it," she said. "Really, it sends chills down the spine."
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Modified spectral imaging technology now makes it possible to reconstruct
what had been on the draft before it was written over. At the intersection
of technology and history, it is now possible to reflect upon how our
concept of nationhood, belonging and civic responsibility has changed.
Jefferson and the other signers of the Declaration of Independence were
born as British subjects and died as American citizens. The technology
that makes it possible to reconstruct what was deleted gives us a glimpse
of the iner shift in attitude and awareness that changed not only America
but the world. Freedom of Speech, of religion and our legal system evolved
here and set the tone for the world. The idea of responsibility as a two
way street comes vividly to life as Thomas Jeffersons erasures now come to
light.
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