But in this private letter to fellow Virginian John Mercer, dated September 9, 1786, and written at a time when he held 250 men, women, and children in slavery, Washington avows his dislike of the institution of slavery, an institution that violated the ideal of freedom and equality: “I never mean . . . to possess another slave by purchase ...

2024年2月22日 · Starting in August of 1824, The Castigator published a new letter every week—each one rebuking popular defenses of slavery. At the time, Ohio and Kentucky were still very much considered part of the nation’s western frontier. Most of the people who lived in Ripley had never heard such a comprehensive explanation of the anti-slavery position.

2009年2月7日 · Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

2014年7月15日 · A letter on the abolition of the slave trade : addressed to the freeholders and other inhabitants of Yorkshire. by Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833

2002年4月4日 · 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 one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, & that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.

2024年11月7日 · In this letter to Robert Morris, of Pennsylvania, dated April 12, 1786, George Washington complains of Quaker involvement in a suit to free the slave of an Alexandria shopkeeper named Philip Dalby.

That God will have mercy upon us, preserve the unity of the nation, and delivery both races from that dreadful curse, African slavery, I pray for and hopefor. Thanking you for your prayers. I...

2020年12月6日 · "A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade" by William Wilberforce is a historical account written in the early 19th century. The work serves as a passionate appeal to the freeholders and inhabitants of Yorkshire, urging them to acknowledge the moral imperative to abolish the slave trade.

2013年1月1日 · A letter on the abolition of the slave trade: addressed to the freeholders and other inhabitants of Yorkshire. The Slave Trade Act of 1807 ended the commerce of buying and selling human beings throughout the British Empire, but it did not end slavery itself.

Many letters relate to his leadership in the movement for Britain's abolition of the slave trade. Correspondence discusses the evils of the slave trade; the slave trade in Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish colonies; slavery, especially in the West Indies; the composition and...