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GulfCoast66

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7. According to Thomas Jefferson,

Reply to Aristus (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 4, 2018, 11:25 AM

Jul 2018

The clause was struck at the insistence of Slave owners in Carolina and Georgia as well as men having financial interest in the Slave trade from New England.

Slavery was truly America’s original Sin.

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