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How would American history have been different if Thomas Jefferson had acted on his belief

that the slaves should be free?

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Jefferson's belief in the necessity of ending slavery never changed. From the mid-1770s until his death, he advocated the same plan of gradual emancipation. First, the transatlantic slave trade would be abolished. ... 12 Like others of his day, he supported the removal of newly freed slaves from the United States.

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