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The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it. Our northern brethren also, I believe, felt a little tender under those censures; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others. This statement suggests that_

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This statement was made by Thomas Jefferson in his autobiography, The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (339-346). In this statement, he rejects the idea of slavery and it's target at African Americans. He also notes and condemns some of it's accomplices and pro slavery states such as South Carolina and Georgia.