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Having endeavored to show what slavery was, and what it has done, I now propose to show what it intends to do.
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Tompkins transitions to discussing the future intentions of slavery after outlining its past actions.
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Slavery had then existed in this country more than two hundred years, yet scarce a man could be then found so bold and so reckless as to proclaim it just and righteous, a humane, a Christian institution.
Upon the decease of my wife, it is my desire that the slaves whom I hold in my own right should receive their freedom.
Resolved, that the abolition of domestic slavery is the greatest object of desire in these colonies, where it was improperly introduced in their infant state.
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free.
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