Reminder: Jefferson was a hypocrite, & worse. But he also wrote the first federal ban on slavery, banned the slave trade at the first possible moment, & penned the words that inspired Lincoln, MLK, & opponents of bondage & degradation the world over.https://twitter.com/APSouthRegion/status/1146145413990252544 …
The British crackdown preceded our ban & is part of the story, but Jefferson was denouncing it years before that, backed a Virginia ban in 1778, called for its end in the 1807 SOTU & signed the federal ban into law.
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Aah, didn’t know that, thanks!
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