The first attempt in history to include anti-slavery, free-soil provisions into a national constitutional instrument was written by Thomas Jefferson. Most historians teach us about the slave-owning of Jefferson – which is important history, but they ignore this fact, and the fact that his text of 1784 was copied almost verbatim as Section 1 of the 13th Amendment.

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Monticello intro and 13th Text

California African American Museum

Thomas Jefferson Report of the Committee (1 Mar 1784)

Jefferson’s Observations (22 June 1786)

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Wikipedia page for the Northwest Ordinance

Free Soil Party platform of 1848

Kurt Lash, the Original Meaning of the 13th Amendment

Michael Vorenberg’s book, Final Freedom

Jack Balkin and Sanford Levinson

Thomas Jefferson to James Heaton (20 May 1826)

William Merkel – Seton Hall Law Review

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