re: #193 Sir John Barron
re: #194 Sir John Barron
Not defending the Federalist in this as they are wrong. But the date they have of 1797 may have been when the US outlawed the slave trade from Africa - (thus returned peoples to Africa went to the founded country of Liberia). The slave trade in the country was not outlawed but they did not allow (unless smuggled in) new slaves to come in from Africa.
I’d research and give the data - but I’m a little indisposed at the moment and this is off the top of my head.