My 3rd great-grandfather, Thomas Nabors, was born in South Carolina in 1813. According to the 1870 U.S. Federal Census, he was 57 years old. His birth came just five years after the United States officially ended the legal importation of enslaved Africans. On March 2, 1807, President Thomas Jefferson signed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves into law. The act took effect on January 1, 1808, making it illegal to import enslaved people into the United States. However, th

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