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To: ProgressingAmerica

quoting BJK: "...but Virginians balked and would not pass the proposed abolition state law."

ProgressingAmerica: "What was the name of this law or otherwise where can I find specific information about this?"

This article describes debates in Virginia's legislature on several proposals after the 1831 Nat Turner rebellion.

It ends by concluding that this was the last time Southerners seriously debated abolition.

87 posted on 08/12/2023 11:38:38 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)

To: BroJoeK

Thank you. I’m gonna send you a PM, no rush to reply.

90 posted on 08/12/2023 4:27:27 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)

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