The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. (Thomas Jefferson)

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

Thomas Jefferson

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