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7980. SLAVES (Emancipation), Methods of.—

As to the method by which this
difficult work is to be effected, if permitted to
be done by ourselves, I have seen no proposition
so expedient on the whole, as that of emancipation
of those born after a given day, and of
their education and expatriation after a given
age.—
To Edward Coles. Ford ed., ix, 478.
(M. 1814)