Editorial note — XIII
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Judge Tucker, who was professor of law at William & Mary College, made it a part of his course of lectures to demonstrate the moral and economic objections to slavery.
Mr. Roosevelt points out that Thomas H. Benton acquired his deep-rooted antagonism to the institution while studying Blackstone "as edited by the learned Virginian Judge Tucker who in an appendix treated of and totally condemned black slavery in the United States." (Thomas H. Benton, Roosevelt, p. 297).