In a letter to the clergyman and historian Jeremy Belknap, of the Massachusetts Historical Society, James Winthrop responds to questions about the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts. The questions were posed by St. George Tucker, who was working on a plan for the end of slavery in Virginia. In 1796, Tucker published A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of It, In the State of Virginia.
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