...the slave trade: I congratulate you, fellow citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally, to withdraw...of our country, have long been eager to proscribe. In maintaining that Africans enjoyed human rights, Jefferson drew no implications for African-American...

...well before 1808: I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally, to withdraw...the United States from all further participation in the violation of human rights which have been so long continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa,...

...took up the question in his annual message, urging Congress to interpose its authority to withdraw citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights which had Jefferson on been "so long continued on the unoffending abolition, inhabitants of Africa."7 Senator...

...distant quarter, for in December 1806 President Thomas Jefferson of the United States attacked the 'violations of human rights which have been so long continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa',46 and called on Congress to use the forthcoming expiry of the constitutional limitation of...

...of Congress, Vol. I, Col. 336. 8DuBois : Suppression of the Slave Trade, ; period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally to withdraw...participation in those violations of human rights which have so long been continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa, and which the morality, the reputation...

...this language : " I congratulate yon, fellow-citizens, on the approach of a period at which you may interpose your authority, constitutionally, to withdraw the citizens of the United States from all participation in the violation of human rights which has been so Icng continued on the unoffending...

...fellow citizens, on the approiCh of the period which you may interpole your authority coniHtutionally, to withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in thofe violations ofhu* man rights, which have been fo long continued on the unoffending inhabitants...

...the year 1808. As that time approached, President Jefferson urged Congress to withdraw the country from all "further participation in those violations of human rights which have so long been continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa." The act provided for was at once...

...fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally, tu withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in tho=c violations of human. rights, which have been so long continued on the urtofiVnding inhabitants...

...Jefferson "congratulated Congress on the approach of the period at which they might interpose their authority constitutionally, to withdraw the citizens of the United States from all farther participation in those violations of human rights which had so long continued on the unoffending...