re: #396 EmmmieG

Another Virginian President…the last one of these I’ll post…

“Happy would it be for the unfortunate Africans, if an equal prospect lay before them, of being redeemed from the oppressions of their European brethren.”

(Speaking of the abolition of the slave trade.)

You’ll never guess who i’m descended from (quite directly, actually)…

“Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest of happiness.”