Saturday, July 16, 2011

History detective knows what Jefferson meant

Fenella France could see the faint trace of a cursive ?t? ? a clue to the word deliberately smudged out and replaced by ?citizens? in Thomas Jefferson?s original draft of the Declaration of Independence.

Perhaps Jefferson had written?patriots,? or even ?residents,? France thought.

Then, using a modified version of spectral imaging technology developed for the military, France solved one of the greatest mysteries baffling researchers of the American Revolution: ?Subjects.?

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