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Title: Thomas Jefferson Statue Branded With ‘Racist + Rapist’ On His Birthday
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URL Source: http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/13/u ... s-jefferson-statue-vandalized/
Published: Apr 14, 2018
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Post Date: 2018-04-14 10:34:05 by Horse
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The University of Virginia discovered a Thomas Jefferson statue smeared with the phrase “racist + rapist” on Friday.
The vandalism likely occurred Friday, on the morning of the former president and UVA founder’s birthday, reported NBC29.
UVA students, alumni, and community members previously plastered a sign reading “Black Lives Matter — F*** White Supremacy” to the statue and covered it with a black shroud in September. (RELATED: Protesters Shroud Thomas Jefferson Statue, Plaster BLM Sign To It [VIDEO])
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#2. To: Horse (#0)
inconvenient facts for the snowflakes ~

On March, 2, in 1807, Congress enacted a law to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States ... from any foreign kingdom, place or country.” The ban took effect on Jan. 1, 1808. By the time the lawmakers acted, every state except South Carolina had already abolished the slave trade.
The legislation was promoted by President Thomas Jefferson, who called for its enactment in his 1806 State of the Union address and who had favored acting on the issue since the 1770s. His views reflected the trend toward abolishing the international slave trade, which Virginia, followed by all the other states, had banned, or restricted, since the prior decade. (South Carolina, however, had reopened its trade.)
With a self-sustaining population of more than 4 million slaves already living in slave-owning states, some Southern congressmen joined with Northerners to enact the ban. However, internal slave trading throughout the South remained unimpeded by the legislation. Children of slaves also became slaves, ensuring a growing slave population. Moreover, historians estimate that up to 50,000 slaves were illegally brought into the United States after 1808, mostly through Spanish Florida and Texas, before those states were admitted to the Union.
In 1820, slave-trading became a capital offense with an amendment to the 1819 Act to Protect the Commerce of the United States and Punish the Crime of Piracy. A total of 74 cases of slaving were brought in the United States from 1837 to 1860, but few ship captains were convicted, and those who were usually received trifling sentences, which they often could avoid.

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y. A total of 74 cases of slaving were brought in the United States from 1837 to 1860, but few ship captains were convicted, and those who were usually received trifling sentences, which they often could avoid.

It's probable that most (or all) ship captains were only employees of those who owned the ships and wrote the checks. Those folks have led charmed existences because of being able to maintain their relative anonymity.....Who were the CEOs of the slave trade?

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