"An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery" applied to black ... 1781 issue of "Freeman's Journal," along with a letter from Cato, "a poor negro, who with myself and children have had the ...

who are the subject of this letter, in slavery. I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it; but there is only ...