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Original Title: TIL During the American Revolution, an enslaved man named Billy was charged with treason. He argued that as a slave, he couldn’t commit treason against a government to which he owed no allegiance. With the appeal of Henry Lee II, William Carr, and Mann Page, Thomas Jefferson granted him a pardon.