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 * //Drafting of the Declaration of Independence//**



This picture represents the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. In this picture the entire committee is shown, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, and John Adams. During this meeting there was editing done and slavery was taken out of the Declaration of Independence. The area where this was done is called the Declaration House. Thomas Jefferson was responsible for writing the Declaration but they all had the duty of working together to edit it.