1)Identify and explain the historical purpose of the excerpt from Jefferson. 2)Identify and explain how these two sources could be considered contradictory sources (how do they contradict each other).

We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal; that they
are endowed with certain unalienable
rights, that among these are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness...
[The King] has excited domestic
insurrections amongst us, and has
endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants
of our frontiers, the merciless Indian
Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is
an undistinguished destruction of all
ages, sexes and conditions...
Boston
New
WHALEOL. LUMBER FURS
Philadelphlork
NORTH
MERICA
Charleston
RICE, SILK, INDIQ, TOBACCO
SUDAR, MOLASSES, WOOD
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
I
AFRICA
CARIBBEAN
ISLANDS
...He has waged cruel war against human
nature itself, violating its most sacred
rights of life and liberty in the persons of
a distant people (Africans) who never
offended him, captivating and carrying
them into slavery in another hemisphere
or to incur miserable death in their
transportation thither... Determined to
keep open a market where Men should be
bought and sold...
Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence,
1776
SLAVES
MIDDLE PASSAGE
RUM. IRON, GUNPOWDER, CLOTH, TOOLS