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Lincoln routinely acknowledged that a clear majority of the [[Founding Fathers]] condemned slavery.<ref name=echoes>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0PVc-rDIKRoC&pg=PA194 Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: Echoes of the Bible and Book of Common Prayer]</ref>  In his sixth debate with Steven Douglass, Lincoln argued that the Founding Fathers considered slavery wrong, and firmly expected it to die a natural death.<ref>[https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/slavery.htm Lincoln on Slavery]</ref>  In [[Lincoln's Cooper Union Speech]],<ref name=echoes /> as well as in Lincoln's "Peoria Speech", where he pointed out that "only argument they ever admitted in favor of slavery" was necessity, that they blamed the "British King for having permitted its introduction".<ref name=peoria>[https://books.google.com/books?id=CkqG9YhZGygC&pg=PT90 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln]</ref>

Lincoln routinely acknowledged that a clear majority of the [[Founding Fathers]] condemned slavery.<ref name=echoes>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0PVc-rDIKRoC&pg=PA194 Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: Echoes of the Bible and Book of Common Prayer]</ref>  In his sixth debate with Steven Douglass, Lincoln argued that the Founding Fathers considered slavery wrong, and firmly expected it to die a natural death.<ref>[https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/slavery.htm Lincoln on Slavery]</ref>  In [[Lincoln's Cooper Union Speech]],<ref name=echoes /> as well as in Lincoln's "Peoria Speech", where he pointed out that "only argument they ever admitted in favor of slavery" was necessity, that they blamed the "British King for having permitted its introduction".<ref name=peoria>[https://books.google.com/books?id=CkqG9YhZGygC&pg=PT90 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln]</ref>

<blockquote>In 1794, they prohibited an out-going slave-trade - that is, the taking of slaves from the United States to sell.

<blockquote>[[Slave Trade Act of 1794|In 1794]], they prohibited an out-going slave-trade - that is, the taking of slaves from the United States to sell.

In 1798, they prohibited the bringing of slaves from Africa, into the Mississippi Territory - this territory then comprising what are now the States of Mississippi and Alabama. This was ten years before they had the authority to do the same thing as to the States existing at the adoption of the constitution.

In 1798, they prohibited the bringing of slaves from Africa, into the Mississippi Territory - this territory then comprising what are now the States of Mississippi and Alabama. This was ten years before they had the authority to do the same thing as to the States existing at the adoption of the constitution.