Republican (constitutionalist) President Jefferson—without a War of Federal Aggression—signs the Slave Non-Importation Act, banning the international slave trade.
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Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 64.
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