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  • The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . . . But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty - and when the captor in war . . . thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable.

    "Papers of Alexander Hamilton". Book by Alexander Hamilton, November 22, 1961.
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