Sentence:  New Englanders were a bit sensitive on the subject of their complicity in Negro slavery at the time of the drafting of the <WSD>Declaration</WSD> of Independence , as Jefferson explained in his `` Autobiography '' : `` The clause reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia , who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves , and who on the contrary still wished to continue it . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the Colonies from Great Britain