Thomas Jefferson:

The commerce of slaves in the West Indies, I am informed, is an open market of human flesh, where the unhappy victims are daily exposed to the highest bidder, and where the most sacred ties of nature are torn asunder by the avarice of their unfeeling masters.

— Thomas Jefferson Early Modern

US Founding Father, Declaration of Independence

Context

Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIV, 'Laws'

Date / Period

1785

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15720/15720-h/15720-h.htm#link2H_4_0007

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Explanation

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