And please explain to your rapt audience what Thomas Jefferson meant by, “Determined to keep open a market where Men should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.”
“And please explain to your rapt audience what Thomas Jefferson meant by, Determined to keep open a market where Men should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. “
Wrong question.
The important question is, “Why was this removed from the original draft of the DOI?”