On 4 July 1776, Philadelphia was teetering on the brink of a new world.

The men who would sever a budding super-power from an empire were gathering in the building that would one day be called Independence Hall.

Among them was Thomas Jefferson, lawyer, philosopher, revolutionary, and soon to be the third president of the United States.

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