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Excerpt from Notes on the Proposed Abolition of Slavery in Virginia in 1785
A. We are deeply conscious of the Impropriety of making new Terms of Communion for a religious Society already established, except ing on the most pressing Occasion: and such we esteem the Practice of holding our fellow-creatures in Slavery. We view it as contrary to the Golden Law of God on which hang all the Law and the Prophets, and the unalienable Rights of Mankind, as well as every Principle of the Revolution, to hold in the deepest Debasement, in a more abject Slavery than is perhaps to be found in any Part of the World except America, so many Souls that are all capable of the Image of God.
We therefore think it our most bounden Duty, to take immediately some effectual Method to extirpate this Abomination from among as; And for that Purpose we add the following to the Rules of our Society Viz.
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