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It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

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Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

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There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

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We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.

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Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

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Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.

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Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.

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When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Activist

Born: March 28th, 1760

Died: September 26th, 1846

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