EPISODE · Mar 2, 2026 · 1 MIN
March 2 - Outlawing the Slave Trade
from Labor History in 2:00 · host The Rick Smith Show
On this day in Labor History the year was 1807. That was the day that President Thomas Jefferson signed legislation outlawing the trans-Atlantic slave trade from bringing enslaved Africans to the United States. At the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, the authors had decided to revisit the question of slavery after two decades.
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