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The Founding Fathers on Slavery
| - | Benjamin Franklin, An Address to the Public, 1789 |
| - | George Washington, Last Will & Testament, 1799, Item Two |
| - | John Adams to George Churchman and Jacob Lindley, 24 Jan. 1801, excerpt |
| - | Thomas Jefferson to Henri Grégoire, 25 Feb. 1809 |
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Franklin:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=2185
Washington: PDF file*
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/livingrev/equality/text2/
washingtonwill.pdf
Adams:
https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s57.html
Jefferson:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=460
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Online
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Washington: National Humanities Center
Adams: The Founders' Constitution, University of Chicago Press
Franklin and Jefferson: TeachingAmericanHistory.org,
Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, Ashland University
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Printing
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- Print directly from the sites sites ("easy to print version"
where available).
- Length: 6 pages.
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Supplemental
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Will of George Washington, full texts and facsimiles, from the Univ. of Virginia Library
George Washington on slavery, Letter to Robert Morris, 12 April 1786, from The Founder's Library
Jefferson on slavery in Notes on the State of Virginia, 1784, Queries 14 & 18
Jefferson's letter to Grégoire, facsimile and discussion, from the Library of Congress (scroll down to 17th item)
John Jay to the President of the [English] Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, 1788
James Madison, Memorandum on an African Colony for Freed Slaves, 1790
Life and presidencies, from The American President (PBS/WNET)
George Washington
John Adams
James Madison
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