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I say that slavery is but the creation of some local enactment, and that no property can exist in a human being, unless it is made so by some law.
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Tompkins argues that slavery is a construct of local laws and cannot exist without legal backing.
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Upon the decease of my wife, it is my desire that the slaves whom I hold in my own right should receive their freedom.
Have we not reason to suspect that too many of our countrymen have ceased to be virtuous?
We ought to lament and deplore the necessity of holding our fellow men in bondage.
I repeat again, that it would rejoice my very soul that every one of my fellow beings were emancipated.
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