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Slavery and the Declaration of Independence: The Deleted Clauses

Sunday, January 25 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. 

Photo credit: Image of Thomas Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence. Library of Congress.

Save the date for the first program in the Generation Declaration series, “Slavery and the Declaration of Independence: The Deleted Clauses,” with OAH Distinguished Lecturer Holly Brewer, Burke Professor of American History and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland.

2026 will mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Join Morven, the home of a Signer, as we dive into all things Declaration with a new public program series. Generation Declaration invites public historians, scholars, and writers to share their work researching little known or underrepresented aspects of America’s founding document. 

Join us in discovering: Who was this document written for and why? How was it printed and represented visually? What did news outlets have to say about it? In what ways has the document been repurposed for other movements for justice and independence? 

Save the date for the first program in the series, “Slavery and the Declaration of Independence: The Deleted Clauses,” with OAH Distinguished Lecturer Holly Brewer, Burke Professor of American History and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland.

Upcoming programs in the series

• Thursday, April 9, 2026 - John Bidwell, Curator Emeritus at the Morgan Library, on “The Declaration in Script and Print”
• Sunday, July 19, 2026 - Emily Sneff, Public Historian and Author, on “When the Declaration was News”