 But also, I mean, there's a sort of political purpose there, which is that the Southerners were interested in seeing the slave trade end because they had a market in their own slaves. So when there was no slave trade, their own slaves were going to be worth more, and they could profit by, in effect, breeding slaves and trading them. So it's a really double-edged element there that Jefferson's put in. But it was struck by the Continental Congress, and the reason it appears to have been struck is because that