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Speech to 14th Indiana Regiment, March 17, 1865
The Slavery Question?
Printed Resolution on Western Territory Government; with Notations by Thomas Jefferson
-Article 5
Thomas Jefferson
Charles Willson Peale, 1791/ Oil on canvas / Independence National Historical Park Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The "Gray" of slavery for
Thomas Jefferson
The "Gray" of slavery
for Indiana.
Why???
"Southern delegates to Congress supported this prohibition of slavery for economic, politica, and demographic reasons. They did not want a competing plantation economy, most new settlers were emigrating from New England, and the tacit understanding existed that slavery was permissable in the territory southwest of the Ohio River"
John P. Kaminski, A Necessary Evil?: Slavery and the Debate over the Constitution (Madison, WI: Madison House, 1995), 39.
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