...slaves be outlawed by the earliest possible date permitted in the Constitution ( 1 808), for these "violations of human rights which have been so long...and which the morality, the reputation, and the best interest of our country, have long been eager to proscribe" (p. 528). However, Miller notes that because...

...to Congress on December 2, 1808, when he spoke of the impending end of the slave trade as preventing "those violations of human rights which have been...so long continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa."15 He worked hard to see the passage of a strong act to implement the proscription put into...

...Congress he said, "I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority, Constitutionally, to withdraw...you may pass can take prohibitory effect till the day of the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, yet the intervening period is not too long to...

...message to Congress in December 1806, Jefferson recommended legislation to abolish the African trade "to withdraw the citizens of the United States from...best interests of our country have long been eager to proscribe."97 Congress soon passed a law ending the trade on January 1, 1808. Historians have rightly...

...to his credit, recommended action as soon as Congress obtained the constitutional authority in order to "withdraw the citizens of the United States from...of our country have long been eager to proscribe." Congress quickly passed a law prohibiting the further import of slaves from Africa as of January 1,...

...the approach of the period when you may interpose your authority constitutionally" to stop Americans "from all further participation in those violations...best interests of our country have long been eager to proscribe."25 Closure of the African slave trade could not take effect until January 1, 1808, conceded...

...period when you may interpose your authority constitutionally" to bar Americans throughout the Union "from all further participation in those violations...best interests of our country have long been eager to proscribe."92 In 1807, Congress followed Jefferson's recommendation, prohibiting the slave trade after...

...Postcolonial Era I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally to withdraw...of our country have long been eager to proscribe. — Thomas Jefferson, i806 The time may not be far distant when we shall be called to the field against...

...taxing imports of slaves, President Thomas Jefferson, in his annual message in December 1806, condemned those "violations of human rights which have been...continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa," and urged Congress to take advantage of the end of the constitutional limitation of twenty years, which...

...moving against the traffic until President Jefferson, in his annual message of December, 1806, condemned "those violations of human rights which have been...continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa," and urged Congress to take advantage of the approaching end of Constitutional limitation.40 Unlike the...