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... slaves . The deleted passage is more than rhetorical . It expresses the younger Jefferson's profound moral revulsion against slavery before his later acquiescence in it politically and personally . Here the italics are Jefferson's own ...
... slaves . The deleted passage is more than rhetorical . It expresses the younger Jefferson's profound moral revulsion against slavery before his later acquiescence in it politically and personally . Here the italics are Jefferson's own ...
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... slavery within their borders . Having acted to emancipate the slaves by an act of “ mili- tary necessity , " as he called it , he was then free to interpret the war in biblical terms as God's punishment for slavery , a punishment ...
... slavery within their borders . Having acted to emancipate the slaves by an act of “ mili- tary necessity , " as he called it , he was then free to interpret the war in biblical terms as God's punishment for slavery , a punishment ...
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... slavery . If slavery is not wrong , nothing is wrong . I cannot remember when I did not so think , and feel . And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this ...
... slavery . If slavery is not wrong , nothing is wrong . I cannot remember when I did not so think , and feel . And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this ...
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