A DISSERTATION ON SLAVERY: WITH A PROPOSAL FOR THE GRADUAL ABOLITION OF IT, IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.
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BY ST. GEORGE TUCKER, PROFESSOR OF LAW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF WILLIAM AND MARY, AND ONE OF THE JUDGES OF THE GENERAL COURT, IN VIRGINIA.
Slavery not only violates the Laws of Nature, and of civil Society, it also wounds the best Forms of Government: in a Democracy, where all Men are equal, Slavery is contrary to the Spirit of the Constitution.
MONTESQUIEU.
PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED FOR MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market-Street. 1796.
TO THE General Assembly of Virginia,
To whom it belongs to decide upon the expediency and practicability of a plan for the gradual abolition of Slavery in this commonwealth,
The following pages are most respectfully submitted and inscribed,
BY THE AUTHOR.
Williamsburg, in Virginia, May 20, 1796.