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Thanks, that's another one; but again, the intention of it was to grease the wheels for the slave states to join the Union so that the institution itself may ev

by bhupy 5y ago

Thanks, that's another one; but again, the intention of it was to grease the wheels for the slave states to join the Union so that the institution itself may eventually be outlawed. Indeed, Jefferson's outlawing of the international slave trade went into effect on January 1, 1808, not a single day after the limit laid out in Article 1, Section 9.

kevinmchugh 5y ago
I don't know anything about the history of that law but it passed the house almost unanimously and the Senate wasn't split along slave/free lines. It didn't have the effect of hurting slavery and it's conceivable the slave-state legislators thought it would boost local production (of slaves)