1789 the US banned territories with slavery from becoming a state
1794 the US banned exportation of slaves
1808 the US banned the importation of slaves (Enacted Law that was written earlier)
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1820 the US Congress starts repealing
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The Confederate Constitution was about slavery
You couldn't join unless you were a Slave State
You couldn't stay in if you ended slavery
Original Name "The Slave Holding Confederate States of America"
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The last official adress of his excellency George Washington
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The Reverand Apslan Jones (Treated Yellow Fever) & Richard Alan
Benjamin Rush (Philadelphia)
Thomas Hercules (A free Negro man) Elected Town Clerk in the Borough of Eafton, Pennsylvania, July 6th 1792
"This we mention as a proof of the growing liberality of the present age, when virtue and worth alone, and not mere colour, or trippery of rank and splendor, begin to recomend a man be recommended for places of trust and confidence."
We had legislatures in texas that were probably 60-70% Black (erased from history)
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The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution by William Cooper Nell (Google Books)
Setting The Record Straight: American history In Black And White by David Barton
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