The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in tho…

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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 (1829). Memoir, correspondence and miscellanies from the papers of Thomas Jefferson, p.111
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