[jeffersondem]

“Americans wanted to create a country in 1776 that consisted of 3 (likely 4) free-soil states, and only 9 slave states.”

The Bee has stung again.

[ProgressingAmerica]

"The legislatures of some of the colonies have done what they could to put a stop to the importation of African slaves, by loading it with the heaviest duties: And others have attempted the total abolition of it, by acts of assembly which their (Royal) governors refused to pass." - (October 18th, 1776)