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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette on Slavery

1757–1834 France

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I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.