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Omaha Steve

(103,477 posts) Tue Mar 8, 2016, 06:55 PM Mar 2016

3-2-16 Thomas Jefferson signs Law Outlawing Slave Trade in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/march-2-2016-thomas-jefferson-signs-law-outlawing-slave-trade/

March 2, 2016
On this day in Labor History the year was 1807. That was the day that President Thomas Jefferson signed legislation outlawing the trans-Atlantic slave trade from bringing enslaved Africans to the United States. At the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, the authors had decided to revisit the question of slavery after two decades.

2:00 minute audio at link.

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3-2-16 Thomas Jefferson signs Law Outlawing Slave Trade in 2:00 (Original Post) Omaha Steve Mar 2016 OP

What a hypocrite. brush Mar 2016 #1

brush

(57,580 posts)

1. What a hypocrite.

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Tue Mar 8, 2016, 08:12 PM

Mar 2016

Did he stop screwing his enslaved mistress Sally Hennings then, with whom he had several childred afterwards?

And another thing, he never freed his enslaved people before he died.

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