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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. — Patrick Henry
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. — Thomas Jefferson
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. — James Madison
We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised… — James Madison
Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves. — James Madison
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those… — James Madison
It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a… — James Madison
Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character. — James Madison
If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense, the amount of… — James Madison
In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and… — James Madison
The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that… — Thomas Jefferson
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of… — Benjamin Franklin
The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . . . But being… — Alexander Hamilton
Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others,… — Patrick Henry
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick,… — Benjamin Franklin
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if… — Patrick Henry
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means… — Thomas Jefferson
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive… — George Washington
I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery. — George Washington
Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble… — George Washington
I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion. — George Washington
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state… — George Washington
The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising… — James Madison
But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he… — Thomas Jefferson
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation… — Thomas Jefferson

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