“Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.”
Source: The Human Use of Human Beings (1950), p. 162
“Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves.”
Letter to Edmund Randolph (26 July 1785) https://books.google.com/books?id=zkRKqnxjbAoC&pg=PA199&dq=%22liberate+and+make+soldiers+at+once+of%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CC4Q6AEwA2oVChMIyeyr5cPRxwIVDDU-Ch2IxQjN#v=onepage&q=%22liberate%20and%20make%20soldiers%20at%20once%20of%22&f=false
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