Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes as Slaves, as Citizens and as Soldiers: Read Before the Massachusetts Historical Society, August 14, 1862
Contemporary opinion on slavery, as shown from the history of the Declaration of Independence, 19 - 28.
Mr. Jefferson, 21 - 24. Mr. Adams, 24. Lord Mahon's error as to the Southern Colonies, proved by Mr. Force from the history of the Continental Association of 1774, 25 - 28.
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