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Rohn Hein
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Author Rohn Hein was intrigued by the question: Why was there no mention of slavery in the final version of the Declaration of Independence, when it existed in the original draft? Because very few documents exist to illuminate the proceedings of the Second Continental Congress, Hein’s ambitious first historical novel attempts to reconstruct what happened between the first and final drafts of this cornerstone of American history. Framing the story around an original conceit, he describes the gathering of the colonial delegates as observed by their enslaved valets – whose freedom, unlike their masters’, was ultimately not attained through the process. Weaving together their imagined conversations, reconstructions of the delegates’ discussions, historical narration, and evocative descriptions of life in colonial Philadelphia, Hein recreates in detail the complex interpersonal story of how the final version of the Declaration came about.
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