come entrenched there and it wouldn't
             have been uprooted under that program. But he got credit for being opposed
             Some also say he was opposed to slavery because he was against the slave
             trade, both in the Declaration of Independence and in the Louisiana
             Purchase (Smiley, 2004). But his whole state was against the foreign slave
             trade, because they had a surplus of blacks and they wanted to sell them
             into the states that didn't have that kind of margin. So when the king
             vetoed Louisiana Legislature's petition that the slave trade from England
             be canceled, he was doing it in response to Georgia and the other states
             that didn't have much of a slave population yet. So that was not really a
             thing in favor of the slaves but in favor of the Virginia slave holders."
             It is not just the enemies of the Enlightenment in America today who find
             symbolism in the Hemings story (Mayer, 2001). Libertarians have also used
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