If it wrongs the negro, it also curses the white man.

But we are in it, and what can we do ?" "Get out of it as quickly as possible." "That is easier said than done.

I would willingly free every slave on my plantation if I could do so without expatriating them.

Some of them have wives and children on other plantations, and to free them is to separate them from their kith and kin.

To let them remain here as a free people is out of the question.