Paine, Burr, Franklin, Laurens, most of the cool proto-socialist dudes upstairs from Jefferson et al in the radical assemblies of the Provincial Conference (who forced the signing of the declaration of Independence by voting for Pennsylvania to unilaterally declare independence.)
That said, Jefferson was probably in the upper third of founders morally simply for rising to the position of hypocrite. Most of the southern founders were absolute unrepentant monsters.
Jefferson blocking imports does nothing to reduce slavery as an institution
Not when the prohibition is so comically ill-enforced that NYC is a national hub for human trafficking fifty years later. Certainly not with The Fugitive Slave Act permits an open season on Freedmen native to the states and territories.
Had this strictly been a power play to consolidate control over the human chattel marketplace, it may have undermined slavery as a trade. But it seems that Jefferson only consolidated power within his office. He did comically little to deter actual slave traffic.
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right, some Founders werent too grotesque, yet they went for Jefferson. just fucking baffling.
Paine, Burr, Franklin, Laurens, most of the cool proto-socialist dudes upstairs from Jefferson et al in the radical assemblies of the Provincial Conference (who forced the signing of the declaration of Independence by voting for Pennsylvania to unilaterally declare independence.)
That said, Jefferson was probably in the upper third of founders morally simply for rising to the position of hypocrite. Most of the southern founders were absolute unrepentant monsters.
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Paine is, i think, the only one who you can really say was good without asterisks
skimming his wikipedia and saying fuck yeah every three lines
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Not when the prohibition is so comically ill-enforced that NYC is a national hub for human trafficking fifty years later. Certainly not with The Fugitive Slave Act permits an open season on Freedmen native to the states and territories.
Had this strictly been a power play to consolidate control over the human chattel marketplace, it may have undermined slavery as a trade. But it seems that Jefferson only consolidated power within his office. He did comically little to deter actual slave traffic.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_Prohibiting_Importation_of_Slaves
Federal Law passed in 1807