Abolition Echoes in Early American Policy and Thought
A long excerpted compilation surveys abolitionist writings and debates from 1770s to 1790s, highlighting pamphlets by Hopkins and Jefferson, memorials by New York and Virginia societies, and Congress debates on slavery and the northwest ordinance. It cites figures like Jay, Hamilton, Bush, Franklin, Mason, Madison, and Washington, tracing rising abolitionist sentiment and policy proposals shaping early U.S. stance on slavery.
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Virginia
Robert Pleasants
Virginia Abolition Society
C. Jefferson
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London
Jefferson
Paris
Chesapeake
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg
John Jay
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Alexander Hamilton
Robert R. Livingston
State of New York
James Duane
City of
Jay
Spain
America
New York Manumission Society
Philadelphia
United States’ Treasury
Pennsylvania Abolition Society
Benjamin Franklin
Simon Baldwin
Judge Baldwin
New Haven
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Virginia Society
New Jersey
Uriah Tracy
Connecticut
Zephaniah Swift
Cesar A. Rodney
James Bayard
Delaware
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Abolition Voices Rise Across Early American State Talks
The excerpt surveys historical abolitionist sentiments from 1794 to 1832, citing doctors, judges, and lawmakers who denounced slavery as incompatible with Christianity, natural justice, and republican ideals. It notes manumission acts in Virginia and Maryland, calls for gradual emancipation, and highlights figures like Rush, Pinkney, Tucker, and Sharp advocating abolition.
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Madison
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Kentucky
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Breckenridge
Nicholas
Rice
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Edwards
Connecticut Abolition Society
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church
Rush
Fiske
Dartmouth College
Tennessee
Brown
North Carolina
Hartley
Washington
John Sinclair
Maryland
Tucker
Dorsey
William Pinkney
James Campbell
Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati
Great Britain
General Washington
Baltimore
General Gates
Gates
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University of William and Mary
Granville Sharp
Sharpe
Somerset
King’s Bench
England
Southern Department
Gen. Lee
Partizan Legion
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Supreme Court
General Assembly
Faulkner
Commonwealth
Pendleton
Mason and Lee
Wythe
Thomas Jefferson
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