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A Solution to Slavery?
Jefferson Proposes -- Colonization
Jefferson, along with many other Americans, combined plans for emancipation with colonization -- moving freed slaves outside the US. "I have seen no proposition so expedient ... as that of emancipation of those [slaves] born after a given date, and of their education and expatriation at a proper age," Jefferson wrote in 1814. He eventually decided that Africa was the best destination. |