“If in any instances, wrong has been done by our forefathers to people of one colour, by dispossessing them of their soil, what better atonement is now in our power than that of making what is rightfully acquired a source of justice & of blessings to a people of another colour?”

— James Madison

1810s, Letter to Robert J. Evans (1819)

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4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817) 1751–1836

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