“The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies where it was, unhappily, introduced in their infant state. Check out what he said regarding the abolition of slavery. Only two or three of them actually owned slaves, even as they were against the institution of slavery in theory. George Tucker (Professor of law at William and Mary University), and James Wilson (Signer of the Declaration of Independence). Benjamin Rush (Founding Father), Roger Sherman (Signer of the Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution), St. Henry Laurens (Statesman from South Carolina), James Madison (Fourth President of the United States, American Colonization Society, President), Luther Martin (First Attorney General in the State of Maryland, Member of the Continental Congress, Member of the Federal Convention), George Mason (Virginia Constitutionalist), Gouverneur Morris (Statesman and Diplomat), James Otis (Statesman), Thomas Payne (Statesman) Įdm und Jennings Randolph (Governor of Virginia, Second United States Secretary of State, First United States Attorney General), Dr. First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Governor of the State of New York, Founder and president of the New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves), Thomas Jefferson* (Vice President of the United States and Third President of the United States), Rufus King (Member of the Constitutional Convention, U.S. Senator), Benjamin Franklin (Genius, Diplomat, President of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society) Įlbridge Gerry (Member of the Constitutional Convention, Representative of Massachusetts), Alexander Hamilton (First Secretary of the Treasury, President of the New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves), Patrick Henry (Statesman, Founding Father), Stephen Hopkins* (Rhode Island Assemblyman, Signer of the Declaration of Independence), John Jay (President of the Continental Congress.
Supreme Court), John Dickinson (Congressman from Delaware), William Ellery (signer of the Declaration of Independence), Oliver Ellsworth (drafter of the United States Constitution, Third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, United States Senator from Connecticut), William Few (Revolutionary War soldier, Representative of Georgia at the Constitutional Convention, Representative of Georgia at U.S. William Cushing (First Associate Justice of the U.S.