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Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit would diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country; but I despair of seeing it.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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February 22, 1732
Died:
December 14, 1799
(aged 67)
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