...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.' And eleven years afterward he writes : 'I wish from my soul that the legislature of this state could...

...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being- among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law. " But there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by legislative...

...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes, to see some plan adopted, by which Slavery, in this country, may \>& abolished by law. 1786. PROPOSED LIBERATION OF SLAVES. I have no scruple in disclosing to you *...

...peculiar circumstance should lead me to it, to possess another slave by purchase ; it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may bo abolished Upon the decease of my wife it is my desire that all the slaves whom 1 hold in my own...

...before the formation of the National Constitution, he declared, by letter, that it was "among his first wishes to see some plan adopted by which Slavery in this country might be abolished by law " ; * and again, in another letter, that, in support of any legislative measure...

...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." Mrs. Washington learned, after her husband's death, that the only obstacle to the immediate emancipation...

...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." Martha, his widow, in 1801, manumitted all the slaves she held in her own right. The relation of the...

...resolved never to obtain another bondsman by purchase"it being among my first wishes," he wrote in 1786, "to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." In his will he provided for the release of all his slaves. Washington, it may be said, was a genuinely...

...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." Martha, his widow, in 1801, manumitted all the slaves she held in her own right. The relation of the...

...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." And eleven years afterwards, in August, 1797, he writes to his nephew, Lawrence Lewis, in a letter...