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Monday Mar 02, 2020
March 2 - Thomas Jefferson Signs Law Outlawing Slave Trade
Monday Mar 02, 2020
Monday Mar 02, 2020
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.
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