Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Jérôme Lalande

Born: July 11, 1732
Died: April 4, 1807 (aged 74)
Bio: Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande was a French astronomer, freemason and writer.