Thomas Jefferson was actually the author, but John Adams and Benjamin Franklin were part of the revision process. The prime example of how it is unoriginal is Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence, which shows the considerable amount of revisions the document underwent before becoming the final draft. The two documents are very different in the sense that Adams and Franklin also included their own points of view. In the original document Jefferson mentions a section on slavery, where he states: “He has waged a cruel war against human nature itself, violating his most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who have never offended him, by fascinating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or incurring a miserable death in their transportation thither.” In the final draft of the declaration this section on slavery was eliminated. Thomas Jefferson's original draft has been made clearer and easier to follow. The statement “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…” has been revised from the original draft, which stated “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal and independent; that from that equal creation arise inherent and inalienable rights…” The word independent equal has been changed to equal, because the enumerated rights are self-evident. The rights are