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during the American Revolution, and Congress banned it in 1808. Nevertheless, smuggling was common thereafter, and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service (Coast Guard) began to enforce the ban on the high seas. It has been estimated that before 1820 a majority of serving congressmen owned slaves, and that about 30% of congressmen who were born before 1840 (the last of whom, Rebecca Latimer Felton,

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