Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Edward Bancroft
| Paris Jan. 26. 1788. [1789] |
as far as I can judge from the experiments which have been made, to give liberty to, or rather, to abandon persons whose habits have been formed in slavery is like abandoning children.
PrC (DLC). Published in PTJ, 14:492–94.
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