Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for t…

Thomas Jefferson
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Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1977). The Portable Thomas Jefferson, p.432, Penguin
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