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Image of George Clymer
Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.
- George Clymer
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Image of George Washington
I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.
- George Washington
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Image of Frederick Douglass
My great and exceeding joy over these stupendous achievements, especially over the abolition of slavery (which had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life), was slightly tinged with a feeling of sadness.
- Frederick Douglass
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Wynton Marsalis
If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in the positive ways - if there was no slavery and the abolition of slavery, there would be no jazz.
- Wynton Marsalis
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