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Slavery in the James Madison White House - Photo 3
An excerpt from James Madison’s September 1819 letter to Edward Coles, in which he suggests that the slaves freed by Coles lack the “instruction, the property, and the employments of a freeman.”
- Credit
- Library of Congress, Manuscript Division