Multispectral imaging of the Declaration of Independence now shows that Jefferson crossed out the word "subjects" and replaced it with "citizens."
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"Subjects." That's what Thomas Jefferson first wrote in an early draft of the Declaration of Independence to describe the people of the 13 colonies. 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....
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