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Some of them even accompanied him to the White House. As a younger man, Jefferson argued for the abolition of slavery and in 1778 drafted a Virginia law that prohibited importing enslaved Africans.
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Topher L. McDougal, University of San Diego and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick ...