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To Jefferson belongs the honor of the first effort to prohibit Slavery in the Territories: to Dane belongs the honor of finally embodying this Prohibition in the Ordinance drawn by his hand in 1787.
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Sumner attributes the initial effort to prohibit slavery in the territories to Jefferson, while crediting Dane for formalizing it.
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