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The founder of Savannah, James Ogelthorpe, speaking in London in 1734, 137 years prior to the outbreak of the civil war that would free men from slavery proclaimed:-

“Slavery, the misfortune, if not the dishonour, of other plantations, is absolutely proscribed. Let avarice defend it as it will, there is an honest reluctance in humanity against buying and selling, and regarding those of our species as our wealth and possessions. . . . The name of slavery is here unheard, and every inhabitant is free from unchosen masters and oppression. . . . Slavery is against the gospel as well as the fundamental law of England. We refused, as trustees, to make a law permitting such a horrid crime.”