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To: ProgressingAmerica

Because it doesn’t matter. We rebelled from the British but decided to keep slavery. Everything after the Revolution is on us.


117 posted on 02/19/2021 11:40:53 AM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: discostu

In 1775, when fighting broke out, the colonists banned British slave ships. So no new slaves came in after then and even after 1783 it was very sparse. Washington and Adams each signed legislation making it more difficult and Jefferson withdrew the US from the slave trade altogether.


130 posted on 02/21/2021 6:27:47 AM PST by Borges
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