“The hour of emancipation is advancing... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to its consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.”

—  Thomas Jefferson

Letter to Edward Coles (25 August 1814)
1810s

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