Genres: Letters Diaries & Personal Papers

1825–1860

Fragment on Slavery

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference,

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1825–1860

Fragment on Slavery

Suppose it is true, that the negro is inferior to the white, in the gifts of nature; is it not the exact reverse justice that the white should, for that

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